Because Resin 4.0 can now use Java Injection (JSR-299) for its configuration, we’ve taken advantage of the new syntax to redesign Resin’s rewrite and dispatch capabilities, used for sites migrating from Apache’s mod_rewrite module. The admin documentation is at http://caucho.com/resin/admin/rewrite.xtp and the JavaDoc for the tags is at com.caucho.rewrite (the JavaDoc describes the tags because Resin-rewrite uses Java Injection - JSR-299 for configuration.)

Rewrite matches HTTP URLs with a regular expression and dispatches them to servlets or load-balancing or HTTP proxies or HTTP redirects. PHP applications like MediaWiki and Drupal use rewriting to present pretty URLs to the world, but use /index.php internally.

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