Hi John, thanks for the clarification.

But to come back to my original question: Why is <allowed-methods> not available for wildcard method invocation? Even you expected that it is available (your first post).

Allowed-methods would be a good possibility to limit the wildcard to some method names.

Or is there another possibility to do something like this: <action name="(Method1|Method2|Method3)Crud" class="example.Crud" method="{1}">

i expected:

<action name="*Crud" class="example.Crud" method="{1}"> <allowed-methods>Method1,Method2,Method3</allowed-methods>

Thanks for your work Andi