java.lang.IllegalStateException: No filter named encodingFilter while starting spring application
java, spring, spring-mvc
Solution
I read somewhere that <filter> should be created before <filter-mapping> . I swap the position and was able to fix it ..
Problem
I am trying to run a spring application. My web.xml looks ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/beans.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener </listener-class> </listener> <servlet> <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet </servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/version/2.0/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/version/2.0/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>utf-8</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> </filter> ``` and i am getting error java.lang.IllegalStateException: No filter named encodingFilter at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.updateMappings(ServletHandler.java:1148) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.setFilterMappings(ServletHandler.java:1249) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.addFilterMapping(ServletHandler.java:1079) and i am creating a jetty-pkg as jar file and run it as java -jar myjar.jar