WordPress url rewriting for Java

Question

Hello stackoverflow,

I currently work with Java JBoss Seam.

I've been looking for some information on how to url rewriting, to accomplish something like what WordPress does.

In WordPress you can create a page and give out a url for that page. Thats pretty sweet.

How could I accomplish that in Java? preferably in Seam?

Some reading would be great.

Regards

RD

Answer 1

this question has a problem of it not working, but it looks like there was a comment on how to get it working, im not sure if it will help you though, good luck.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1440641/seam-2-2-0-url-rewrite-not-working

and here's another example, probably more helpful.

http://www.jtict.com/blog/seam-form-url-rewriting/

one more resource.

http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.1.2/reference/en-US/html/events.html#d0e5112

Answer 2

I've used the Paul Tuckey's Url Rewrite Filter in a number of projects:

http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

It uses an XML file to configure inbound and outbound rewriting rules. Both regular expressions and wildcards are supported. It's probably the way to go if your framework doesn't support the URL patterns you want.

A URL rewriting module on your web server is also an option, but I lean towards solutions that let me pack all of the required configuration files in the WAR.