There are some implementation of mod_rewrite for Java.
I personally use UrlRewriteFilter, which "is a Java Web Filter
for any J2EE compliant web application server (such as Resin,
Orion or Tomcat), which allows you to rewrite URLs before
they get to your code."
All what you should do is adding a jar and editing an xml file.
In your example the snippet would be like this:
<rule>
<from>/record/([^\/]+)$</from>
<to>/record?id=$1</to>
</rule>
You can finde more info in this site:
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
Kiraly Peter
http://extensiblecatalog.info
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Forkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] implementing cool uris in java
if i understood correctly, you already create urls like
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record?id=1234565.
since cool urls are the ones that don't change, you will still have
to support these. so i'd think an easy way to support the even cooler
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/123456 would be to use something
like apache's mod_rewrite
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html) assuming you
use apache in front of whatever serves your java code.
regards,
robert
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Emily Lynema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'm looking around for tools to implement cool uris in java. I've been
studying the restlet framework tonight, and while it sounds cool, I think
it
would also require a complete re-write of an application that is
currently
based on the Servlet API. And, of course, I'm working under a time
crunch.
Is there anything out there to assist me in working with cool uris
besides
just using regular expressions when parsing URLs?
For example, I'd like to create URLs like:
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/123456
instead of:
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record?id=1234565
-emily
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Emily Lynema
Systems Librarian for Digital Projects
Information Technology, NCSU Libraries
919-513-8031
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
