How Can I Hide jsp folder path and file name in application

Question

I have a web application - But when I navigate from menus and other links, the address bar displays folder and file name. What I would like to have is whatever navigation the user do, the address bare should only display

http://domain:port/daswebapp

rather than

http://domain:port/daswebapp/admin/index.jsp

Can anybody help on this. I don't use any other framework.Its a pure MVC pattern. Thanks n Regards Noufal

Answer 1

Use url rewrite filter such as urlrewritefilter , for JSF based app go for Pretty faces

The main things it is used for are:

• URL Tidyness / URL Abstraction - keep URLs tidy irrespective of the underlying technology or framework (JSP, Servlet, Struts etc).

• Browser Detection - Allows you to rewrite URLs based on request HTTP headers (such as user-agent or charset).

• Date based rewriting - Allows you to forward or redirect to other URL's based on the

  date/time (good for planned outages).

• Moved content - enable a graceful move of content or even a change in CMS.

• Tiny/Friendly URL's (ie blah.com/latest can be redirected to blah.com/download/ver1.2.46.2/setup.exe)

• A Servlet mapping engine (see Method Invocation)

Answer 2

you can use RequestDispatcher,

RequestDispatcher dispatcher = getRequestDispatcher("daswebapp/admin/index.jsp");
   dispatcher.forward( request, response );

Answer 3

you can use something like this try out and let me know

RequestDispatcher reqDisp = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/index.jsp");
            reqDisp.forward(request, response);