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In order to use interceptors with Annotation-based controllers, you need to configure the DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping used by the Spring container.

<bean id=”annotationMapper” class=”org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping”> <property name=”interceptors”> <list> <ref bean=”myInterceptor1″/> <ref bean=”myInterceptor2″/> <ref bean=”myInterceptor3″/> </list> </property> </bean> URL Specific Interceptors for Annotation-based controllers

Unfortunately, using the DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping for interceptors configures the interceptors for all defined [...]