Looking at web.xml its easy to see how all .jsp files can be mapped to the JSP servlet:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
This relies on two things:
1) The *.JSP suffix to specify that its a JSP.
2) I presume that the prefix after the last forward slash of the path must be the
particular JSP
name to pass to the jsp servlet as a sort of argument.
Okay, but is it possible to map a particular arbitrary existing .html path to a JSP
and have that
JSP name not be directly from that path?
I'd like to do something like:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/dataview/latest/*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
I would expect that to take:
/dataview/latest/forecast.html
and translate it to tell the jsp servlet to invoke:
forecast.jsp
But I'd really like to hide the real JSP names. For instance, make
/dataview/latest/forecast.html
map to a jsp that is
LatestForecast.jsp
Does anyone have an example of how this is done? I've read thru the Sun servlet specs
2.2 and
2.3 and they don't really say that much about the nuances of doing things in web.xml.
Even 2.3
spec's chapter 11 doesn't say much.
