how to have clean url in netbeans for jsp

Question

i would like to remove numerics, symbols and file extensions in the url using netbeans. I tried the following code in web.xml but it aint works

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Answers are welcome

Answer 1

Download the jar http://urlrewritefilter.googlecode.com/files/urlrewritefilter-4.0.3.jar and XML file http://urlrewritefilter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/doc/manual/4.0/urlrewrite.xml

Add urlrewrite.xml into your web-INF folder then add jar file into your libraries .Then isert this segment into your web.xml which defines the filter mapping

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

Consider if your href is <a href="login.jsp">. In your urlrewrite.xml you can see the following code

<rule>
    <from>/Authentication</from>
    <to >/login.jsp</to>
</rule>

The <to> represents your native URL you can paste your native url here .

The <from> represents the altered URL that will be shown on the browser URL .

After editing the urlrewrite.xml you should include only your altered URL in the href tag i.e after changing the urlrewrite.xml your href should should call tha altered URL

<a href="/Authentication">

Thats it now URL wil shown with http:abc.com/Authentication/ instead of http:abc.com/login.jsp/