Add generic composite servlet filter [SPR-8585]

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Dave Syer opened SPR-8585 and commented

Add generic composite servlet filter. Spring security has a composite filter with matching rules bundled into it and it is quite domain specific, but it would be useful to have a simple composite that could be wired up with a list of filter beans and exposed to an app in web.xml. Also very useful for inserting long chains of additional filters in the Spring Security filter chain (which is where the original requirement came from). the VirtualFilterChain in Spring Security provides a template.

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Affects: 3.0.5

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Dave Syer commented

Done. Comment from Rossen: we have quite a few filters in spring mvc now so this could be useful .. it's not that unlikely an app will need 3 or more filters - MultipartFilter, HiddenHttpMethodFilter, HttpPutFormContentFilter, ShallowEtagHeaderFilter, CharacterEncodingFilter.