7 Replies Latest reply on Aug 22, 2006 11:14 AM by perwik

Seam and SEO

smokingapipe Aug 20, 2006 8:47 PM

I looked at the Blogging example. I'm going to try to get that to work, because it's the only piece of code I've ever seen that uses the RequestParameter annotation. One thing I noticed about it: all the entries are things like /extry.xhtml?entry=4448. That works, but it's bad for SEO.

What would be nice would be to be able to map a whole bunch of URLs to one seam page, so I could use a regex in a URL, like in mod_rewrite, like this:

/blog-entry-5858.xhtml

and that would map to one page, and trigger one action.

Can this be done within Seam? I know I can do it with servlets and filters, but can seam do it?

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amarinis Aug 21, 2006 3:33 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

This would be a great feature. I have clients requesting this in most of there RFP's.
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christian.bauer Aug 21, 2006 4:41 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

Apache mod_rewrite or equivalent.
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christian.bauer Aug 21, 2006 4:42 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

And what is wrong with a simple filter? That is what they are made for, as are the rewrite features of any good webserver. Why would we duplicate mod_rewrite in Seam?
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smokingapipe Aug 21, 2006 4:45 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

Well I do it all the time in Apache when I'm working on PHP but I am not excited about introducing Apache into my projects. To be honest I would like to never use Apache httpd again if I can avoid it.

Maybe I'll try some kind of filter to do this.
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smokingapipe Aug 21, 2006 4:47 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

Ok, I'll write a filter. I guess I need to figure out how the RequestDispatcher would look to trigger a JSP page with Seam. If I can figure that part out the filter should be pretty simple.

The only reason to possibly do it within Seam is that the pages.xml file seems like it might be able to do something like that. But if the Seam devs think filters are the way to go, I'll go with a filter.
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christian.bauer Aug 21, 2006 9:43 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

Even if a filter is too complicated, a mod_rewrite equivalent in Tomcat (and others) is then the way to go. I don't think this should be the job of the webapp framework, it's the responsibility of the webserver.
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perwik Aug 22, 2006 11:14 AM (in response to smokingapipe)

Url Rewrite Filter, mod_rewrite for the Java world:

http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
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