Path mapping works perfectly in Orion, and we do exactly what you suggest in
your posting and it works perfectly.
tim.
> Sure it is. I am not sure if its possible in Servlet 2.1/2.2 to "path map"
> to a specific controller servlet, but I think it is. I use extension mapping
> myself. But basically you would do something in your web.xml file like:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
> <display-name>controller</display-name>
> <servlet-class>com.mvc.servlets.ControllerServlet</servlet-class>
> </servlet>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/ss/</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> Now, anytime the /ss/ appears in the request path, it should pass everything
> after the /ss/ as path info to the controller servlet its mapped to. Thus,
> anytime the /ss/ is in your path, the servlet you map it to is invoked, and
> I think the request.getPathInfo() or one of those calls returns everyting
> after the /ss/. Therefore, a link like:
>
> <a href="/web-app-context/ss/DoThis">Click</a>
>
> Should call your servlet, and you would recieve a DoThis as a String
> parameter or something.
>
> Once you have that, you call upon your EJB session bean (or some business
> logic class) that looks up in the database and returns you a path to go to.
> Then you simply do:
>
> try
> {
> request.getRequestDispatcher(url-from-database).forward(request,response);
> }
> catch(Exception e)
> {
> }
>
> That will forward you to the new URL.
>
> Ask if you have any questions..but that should help a bit I hope.
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Since it seems that the list is alive and well, although with very
> > little traffic, I would like to ask a question which has been bothering
> > me for a while.
> >
> > I am trying to do what I would define as dynamic redirection. What that
> > means is that if someone writes an URL like http://myserver/name, I
> > would like to look for "name" in a database and redirect the user to
> > some other URL. This would allow me to avoid modifying manually the
> > configuration file every time a mapping is added,removed or modified.
> >
> > Is this possible? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!
> >
> > Huibert Aalbers
> >
>
>
