web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

	<!-- Enables clean URLs with JSP views e.g. /welcome instead of /app/welcome -->
	<filter>
		<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
		<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
	</filter>

	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>
		
	<!-- Handles all requests into the application -->
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
			<param-value>
				/WEB-INF/spring/*.xml
			</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
		
	<!-- Maps all /app requests to the DispatcherServlet for handling -->
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/app/*</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	
</web-app>