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anshuman
anshuman

Reputation:

Is there a url rewriting engine for Tomcat/Java?

How can we provide URL-Rewriting support for Tomcat/Java ?

mod_rewrite provides this functionality for Apache and can modify URLs even before they reach the handler (e.g. PHP). Is there a similar tool in Java/Tomcat ?

To be more specific we need modifications such as

  http://www.somedomain.com/person/1
      Maps to
  http://www.somedomain.com/details?personId=1

And this should be transparent to the servlet code, i.e. we should be able to access request.getParameter("personId") in the servlet and get the personId (1 in this case).

Did you come across such a scenario ? What tool did you use ?
Would love to hear your suggestions.

Upvotes: 20

Views: 22401

Answers (2)

Robert Munteanu
Robert Munteanu

Reputation: 68308

See the URLRewriteFilter

Upvotes: 30

lobster1234
lobster1234

Reputation: 7779

I did run into this scenario but went with front-ending my Tomcat with Apache+mod_rewrite, to keep it simple. Besides there are other advantages of front-ending with Apache HTTPd depending on your use case.

Upvotes: 0

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