Intercept JAX-RS Request: Register a ContainerRequestFilter with tomcat

Question

I am trying to intercept a request to my JAX-RS webservice by a ContainerRequestFilter. I want to use it with a custom annotation, so I can decorate certain methods of the w

Answer 1

Just compiling the answer from Michael Gajdos to help someone who do not want open more tabs:

When you are using Jersey-2 you must use the follow configuration to register your filter into the web.xml

jersey.config.server.provider.classnames

instead of

com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerRequestFilters (jersey-1x)

 
    
      //...         
     
         jersey.config.server.provider.classnames
         com.your_package_path.yourClassFilter
     
      //...