How to create my own filter with Spring MVC?

Question

I use Spring MVC (4.0.1) as a backend for rest services and angularjs as frontend.

every request to my server backend has a http-header with a session id

I c

Answer 1

Spring can use filters, but they recommend that you use their version of filters, known as an interceptor

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/spring-mvc-interceptor-example/

There is a quick run through of how they work. They are nearly identical to filters, but designed to work inside the Spring MVC lifecycle.