[WW-3933] Provide web-fragment.xml for easier deployment on Servlet 3.0 compliant containers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.7
• Fix Version/s: 6.7.0
• Component/s: Dispatch Filter
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Le Berre
• Created: 01/Dec/12 16:59
• Updated: 12/Jul/24 05:12

Description

Servlet 3.0 specification includes the possibility for libraries to ship web-fragment.xml files in their META-INF directory to contribute some declarations to the main web.xml file.

Struts 2 only requires the declaration of a filter in the web.xml file to work. When building Servlet 3.0 webapp, the web.xml file is often not used at all.
It would be nice to ship a web-fragment.xml file in struts 2 that declares the PrepareAndExecute filter to simplify the use of the framework on a servlet 3.0 stack.