URLRewrite in Tomcat 7

Question

I am planning to develop an Intranet application (Java client, JSP, SQLite)

Goal of this is that when a user clicks on the link, if the user has access (to a team wh

Answer 1

I would recommend to do it with Apache HTTP Server or another server. But if you want to do it only with Tomcat 7 use Tuckey UrlRewriteFilter:

A Java Web Filter for any compliant web application servers (such as Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty or Resin), which allows you to rewrite URLs before they get to your code. It is a very powerful tool just like Apache's mod_rewrite.

This filter allows you to define rules like:

Clean a url

    /products/([0-9]+)
    /products/index.jsp?product_id=$1 
 

eg, /products/1234 will be passed on to /products/index.jsp?product_id=1234 without the user noticing

from Tuckey urlrewrite example

Since Tomcat 8 you can use the rewrite valve.

The rewrite valve implements URL rewrite functionality in a way that is very similar to mod_rewrite from Apache HTTP Server.

Rewrite Valve docs