Hey at least his mom thinks it is really cool.  Check out the second comment on the article.

"hey lincoln — way cool! if i understood more of it, even more cool!! : )"

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Gavin King <gavin@hibernate.org> wrote:
Cool, great :-)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Norman Richards <orb@nostacktrace.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Gavin King wrote:
>
>> http://ocpsoft.com/uncategorized/jsf-get-bookmarkable-and-pretty-urls/
>>
>> Not sure what exactly they are doing, but perhaps we should steal
>> code? Not sure...
>
>
> I think our new internal rewriting is much cleaner.  They have:
>
>
> <pretty-config>
>    <url-mapping id="viewProject">
>        <pattern>/project/#{viewProjectBean.projectId}</pattern>
>        <view-id>/faces/viewProject.jspx</view-id>
>        <action method="#{viewprojectBean.loadData}" />
>        <post-to-jsf-view />
>    </url-mapping>
> </pretty-config>
>
>
> We have:
>
> <page view-id="/viewProject.xhtml">
>        <rewrite pattern="/project/{id}" />=
>        <param name="id" value="#{viewProjectBean.projectId}"/>
>        <action execute="#{viewprojectBean.loadData}"/>
> </page>
>
>
> And, we don't have to change anything on the view side to make it work.  You
> can turn on or off the nice URLs in the pages.xml without changing anything
> else.  I think our only issue is the fine-grained configuration.  We can't
> turn on clean URLs for every page in the system.  Right now, each page needs
> it's own pattern.
>
>
>






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