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Special URL formatting for Java Web Apps

Its best to just show what I'm trying to achieve. This isn't meant to be functional, just describe the problem.

Here's what my tomcat web app currently accepts...

  /.../mywebapp/doSomething.jsp?id=somenumber.

I want it to look like

  /.../mywebapp/somenumber

What is this concept called, and does anyone have a good resource on it ? I'd like to use pure java as much as possible, and avoid the use of apache-specific or 3rd party resources.

+2  A: 

This is URL rewriting and if you don't want to implement it using mod_rewrite (and Apache HTTPD), then you could use Tuckey's UrlRewriteFilter, a Java Web Filter based on mod_rewrite.

Pascal Thivent  2010-10-22 02:05:38
Hmm... which do you recommend ? Or, which is more common in real-world applications ?
JHarnach  2010-10-22 15:14:02
@JHarnach Apache + mod\_rewrite is IMO the most efficient architecture (and will save some CPU cycles at the app server level) but also a bit more complex. If you don't have a dedicated box for Apache, if you don't want to use Apache, then Tuckey's filter is the way to go.
Pascal Thivent  2010-10-22 15:23:49

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