The order the container uses in building the chain of filters to be applied for a particular request URI is as follows:
First, the <url-pattern> matching filter mappings in the same order that these elements appear in the deployment descriptor.
Next, the <servlet-name> matching filter mappings in the same order that these elements appear in the deployment descriptor.
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