Spring Framework filter, bean not injected

Question

There are 2 entries for a Servlet Filter, one in web.xml and one in Spring applicationContext.xml

I added the filter into applicationContext.xml because I wanted to

Answer 1

You can't make a Filter spring managed like this. With your setup it is instantiated once by spring, and once by the servlet container. Instead, use DelegatingFilterProxy:

1. declare the filter proxy as a <filter> in web.xml

2. Set the targetBeanName init-param of the filter definition to specify the bean that should actually handle the filtering:

   <init-param>
       <param-name>targetBeanName</param-name>
       <param-value>creditFilter</param-value>
   </init-param>