Static urls (***.html) for Servlets

Question

How to make static urls for requesting a Servlet. For example: "http://domain/encoded_parametes.html". Without using frames and redirect.

Answer 1

In your web descriptor file (web.xml) create the mapping to the name you want. For example:
<servlet>
     <servlet-name>MyHomePage</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>org.mine.home.HomePage</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>MyHomePage</servlet-name>
     <url-mapping>encoded_parametes.html</url-mapping>
</servlet-mapping>If your context path is "/application" then if you access:
http://[server]:[port]/application/encoded_parametes.html
Then the web container will intercept the request and you will be directed to the servlet instead of a *.html file.
Anthony