Fudging Filter Functionality as a method call

[Sam Gehouse]

Is there a way that I can fudge filter functionality as a method call.
I am having problem using Jason Falkner's Compression Filter using Struts. Apparently, our application (developed by previous developers) is doing ServletChaining and I am getting exception.
I want to use Jason Falkner's CompressionFilter.
But can I use it as a method call, instead of using it as a Filter? I have no other filter in the application.

Jason Falkner's Compression Filter:

public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res,
FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
if (req instanceof HttpServletRequest) {
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;
String ae = request.getHeader("accept-encoding");
// String doCompression = req.getParameter("doCompession");
if (ae != null && ae.indexOf("gzip") != -1) {
System.out.println("GZIP supported, compressing.");
GZIPResponseWrapper wrappedResponse =
new GZIPResponseWrapper(response);
chain.doFilter(req, wrappedResponse);
wrappedResponse.finishResponse();
return;
}
chain.doFilter(req, res);

}
}

I tried using it as a method call by commenting out line chain.doFilter(req, wrappedResponse). As I saidd, there is no filter in the application. Chain.doFilter(..) in reality passes control to the resource that has to be compressed. After that, control comes back to wrappedResponse.finishResponse() line.

However, if I try to use doFilter as a method call by commenting out chain.doFilter(req, wrappedResponse), and call it at some place of a Servlet, it does not do any good. Key is, control has to come back to filter for it to be compressed.

Any thoughts?