Define a filter for a Portals Struts Bridge Portlet?

["Kofford, C Todd" <tk...@ku.edu>]

I have a portlet which I have implemented in a uportal deployment that 
uses the Portals Struts Bridge, but I need to define a filter for it 
(similar to a Servlet Filter) so that I can do some pre & post 
processing of the requests to the portlet. However, I don't seem to be 
having any luck. Below is what I have tried so far.

1) I first tried a Servlet Filter on the struts app web.xml. It didn't 
respond when run as a portlet in uportal.
2) I next tried to define a Servlet Filter for my uportal web.xml, but 
couldn't get a consistent URL pattern (from uportal) for my struts 
portlet. So this didn't work either.
3) I looked at the FilterPortlet class, but couldn't figure out how to 
setup a filter mapping (like a Servlet Filter) in my portlet.xml file.

Any Suggestions?


Todd Kofford
tkofford@ku.edu
University of Kansas - IT