In Tomcat 7, can I use regular expressions in <url-pattern>?

Does Tomcat 7 have such a facility? Although I could write a filter to parse regular expression in url, it would 开发者_开发知识库make another project. I think such a facility should be provided in mainstream servlet containers.

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The Servlet API specification does not specify that. So no one container supports it.

Best what you can get is using Tuckey's URLRewriteFilter. It's much similar to HTTPD's mod_rewrite.