URL Re-Writing

Hi Guys,
I'm interested in managing urls on incoming requests. For example, if someone clicks on a link that says, www.something.com or www.someone.com, I want them both to direct to the same page. I'm guessing I can do this from the web xml servlet mapping property, but I want to know if there are other ways of doing this.
Also, I want to be able to re-write outgoing urls so they retain the names I want them to have. For example in my servlet I have something like;
String address = "";
address = "RetrieveUser.jsp";
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(address);and then the code will display something like
www.somethinglike.com/RetriveUser.jsp.
However I want it to display,
www.somethinglike.com/WhatIWant.htm
how would I go about achieving this?

What do you mean "the code will display something like" ? The code will contain whatever you write, you are writing the code, right or wrong. Are you referring to the url in the browser window?
What are you trying to do
Note that the RequestDispatcher is a server side redirect, so essentially the client is unaware. Calling the method "sendRedirect" of the response object causes the client to initiate a new get request and that will impact what appears in the browser window of the client. The RequestDispatcher will have no impact.

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