Hi Markus, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Markus Joschko <[email protected]> wrote: > ...we have to implement two slightly opposing sets of requirements: > > 1a) Create notification e-mails with links to resources > 1b) Allow external systems to store references to resources and to > retrieve resource data through that reference at a later date > > and > > 2) Moving resources within the tree based on business processes > > By moving a resource, the path would naturally change, which would > render any e-mail URL or external reference useless...
Can't you do that using HTTP redirects? Client requests /permalink/FOO, and a servlet mounted at /permalink does an HTTP redirects to the actual resource, using whatever mechanism is appropriate based on the semantics of FOO. -Bertrand
