Web.xml: wildchar /streams/* possible?

Question

i would like to get all requests for a directory to a specific servlet.
i know that i could realize something like this:
a) RewriteURL of apache
b) with creating my own suffix like "*.mycontent"
c) user something like "/streams/?filename"
but i realy like to know if there is a way with simple web.xml way for it, since it doesn't work for me currently.

Answer 1

this works for filters, why doesnt it should also work for servlets?
like
     <servlet>
          <servlet-name>servletName</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>some.Servlet</servlet-class>
     </servlet>
     <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>servletName</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>/data/*</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>