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These filters can be registered from JAX-RS 2.0 client or container request/response filters or CXF in/out interceptors. MultipartInputFilter can be added to the list of the input filters which is identified by a "multipart.input.filters" property on the current CXF message. Likewise, MultipartOutputFilter can be added to the list of the output filters which is identified by a "multipart.output.filters" property on the current CXF message. 

Signing Multiparts

See this section for more information.

Note about Struts

If you are using CXF and Struts2 within the same application and expecting CXF to process multipart/form-data payloads then you need to make sure Struts2 dispatcher is not consuming the request input stream.

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