Servlet Filter never gets called

Question

I have a filter configured in web.xml to run on hitting the /welcome.jsf(forward, request).
I want to update a statistics table with the hit count for login.  But the servlet is not getting called.
In the debugger, it never stops there and the statistics table never gets updated.

Answer 1

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<filter>
        <filter-name>IBHSLoginStatistics</filter-name>
        <filter-class>gov.samhsa.dasis.isats.view.servlets.filters.IBHSLoginStatistics</filter-class>
    </filter>
<filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>IBHSLoginStatistics</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/welcome/*</url-pattern>
        <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException,
ServletException {
HttpSession session = (HttpSession)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSession(false);
if(session.isNew()) {
IbhsStatistics ibhsStatistics = new IbhsStatistics();
ibhsStatistics.setEventDate(new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()));
ibhsStatistics.setEventType("Login");
ibhsStatistics.setUserid(SecurityShell.getUserId());
ManageIbhsStatistics manageIbhsStatistics = new ManageIbhsStatistics();
try {
manageIbhsStatistics.saveIbhsStatistics(ibhsStatistics);
} catch (NamingException e) {
} catch (NotSupportedException e) {
} catch (SystemException e) {
} catch (RollbackException e) {
} catch (HeuristicMixedException e) {
} catch (HeuristicRollbackException e) {
chain.doFilter(request, response);