How to get UTF-8 working in java webapps?

<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
 maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
 enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
 connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
 compression="on"
 compressionMinSize="128"
 noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
 compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/ javascript,application/x-javascript,application/javascript"
 URIEncoding="UTF-8"
/>

https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=*ж*

package fi.foo.filters;

  import java.io.IOException;
  import javax.servlet.Filter;
  import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
  import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
  import javax.servlet.ServletException;
  import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
  import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;

  public class CharsetFilter implements Filter
   {
   private String encoding;

   public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException
   {
    encoding = config.getInitParameter("requestEncoding");

    if( encoding==null ) encoding="UTF-8";
   }

   public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain       next)
   throws IOException, ServletException
   {
    // Respect the client-specified character encoding
    // (see HTTP specification section 3.4.1)
    if(null == request.getCharacterEncoding())
      request.setCharacterEncoding(encoding);


    /**
 * Set the default response content type and encoding
 */
 response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
 response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");


    next.doFilter(request, response);
   }

    public void destroy(){}
   }

<!--CharsetFilter start-->

  <filter>
    <filter-name>CharsetFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>fi.foo.filters.CharsetFilter</filter-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>requestEncoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
      </init-param>
  </filter>

  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>CharsetFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fi">
   <head>
   <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' />
   ...

<Resource name="jdbc/AppDB"
        auth="Container"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource"
        maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000"
        username="foo"
        password="bar"
        driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/      ID_development?useEncoding=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"
    />

CREATE DATABASE `ID_development`
   /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci */;

CREATE TABLE  `Users` (
    `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
    `name` varchar(30) collate utf8_swedish_ci default NULL
    PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
   ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_swedish_ci ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;

[client]
   port=3306
   default-character-set=utf8

   [mysql]
   default-character-set=utf8

DELIMITER $$

   DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `pathToNode` $$
   CREATE FUNCTION `pathToNode` (ryhma_id INT) RETURNS TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8
   READS SQL DATA
   BEGIN

    DECLARE path VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8;

   SET path = NULL;

   ...

   RETURN path;

   END $$

   DELIMITER ;

https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=Petteri
   https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=ж

https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=*Päivi*

https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=*P%E4ivi*

<connection-url>jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.123:3308/mydatabase</connection-url>
<driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
<user-name>nts</user-name>
<password>xaxaxa!</password>
<connection-property name="useUnicode">true</connection-property>
<connection-property name="characterEncoding">greek</connection-property>

jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.123:3308/mydatabase?characterEncoding=greek

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

convmv --notest -f cp1252 -t utf8 * -r

DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.mysql.jdbc.Driver());
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
    "jdbc:mysql://192.168.1.12:3308/mydb?characterEncoding=greek",
    "Myuser", "mypass");

DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.mysql.jdbc.Driver());
 Connection conn =  DriverManager.getConnection(("jdbc:mysql://192.168.1.1:3308/nts?characterEncoding=greek","myuser","mypass");