Posts Tagged ‘Filters’

Day Communique – Alternate to Request Filters

Monday, February 18th, 2008

For those of you who work with CQ, you will know that you aren’t building and deploying your own WAR. Instead, you can only add artifacts (classes, JARs, etc) to the repository. Continuing with that notion, you aren’t supposed to modify the author/publish WAR files at all. This means you can’t, for example, add a servlet filter via the web.xml file. However, I find the use of filters to be indispensable, especially for things like single sign on. There is a CQ alternative though.

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