In a web.xml, can the url-pattern of servlet-mapping containing more than one path component? (e.g. /path/to/*))

I'm finding the following strange behaviour:

1. GET http://myserver/myapp/functionality/2.0 works (calls my @Controller method)

2024-03-14 13:59:49,761 [ajp-nio-172.7.102.11-5067-exec-2] INFO  com.mycompany.MyControllerV2 - MyControllerV2 getSomething4() Begin

2. GET http://myserver/myapp/functionality/2.0/ does not work

2024-03-14 13:59:48,048 [ajp-nio-172.7.102.11-5067-exec-1] WARN  org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping for GET /myapp/functionality/2.0/

3. GET http://myserver/myapp/functionality/2.0/pathvalue does not work

catalina.out

 2024-03-14 13:57:32,953 [main] DEBUG _org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerMapping.Mappings -    e.s.a.a.r.c.MyControllerV2:    {GET [/functionality/2.0/{entity}]}: getSomething2(HttpServletRequest,HttpServletResponse)    {GET [/functionality/2.0]}: getSomething4(HttpServletRequest,HttpServletResponse)    {GET [/functionality/2.0/]}: getSomething5(HttpServletRequest,HttpServletResponse)    {GET [/functionality/2.0/pathvalue]}: getSomething6(HttpServletRequest,HttpServletResponse)    {GET [/myapp/functionality/2.0/pathvalue]}: getSomething7(HttpServletRequest,HttpServletResponse)

web.xml

Note I have a version 1.0 that extends the plain old HttpServlet, hence needing this /2.0/ path component.

<servlet><servlet-name>NEWAPI</servlet-name><servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class><init-param><param-name>dispatchOptionsRequest</param-name><param-value>true</param-value></init-param><load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup></servlet><servlet-mapping><servlet-name>NEWAPI</servlet-name><url-pattern>/functionality/2.0/*</url-pattern></servlet-mapping>

NEWAPI-servlet.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"        xsi:schemaLocation="                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"><!--                - The controllers are autodetected POJOs labeled with the @Controller annotation.        --><context:component-scan base-package="edu.mycompany" /></beans>

Tech stack

(Enforced, not my choice)

• Spring 5,
• Tomcat 9 and
• Servlet 2.3,

Notes

• Apologies if the example is artificial, I needed to erase company secrets.
• I did read the Servlet specs, but it doesn't seem to address this case