<filter>
	<filter-name>Pretty Filter</filter-name>
	<filter-class>com.ocpsoft.pretty.PrettyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
	<filter-name>Pretty Filter</filter-name>
	<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<pretty-config xmlns="http://ocpsoft.com/prettyfaces-xsd"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://ocpsoft.com/prettyfaces-xsd 
	http://ocpsoft.com/xml/ns/prettyfaces/pretty-1.0.xsd">
	<url-mapping id="login">
		<pattern> /login </pattern>
		<view-id> /faces/login.jsf </view-id>
	</url-mapping>
	<url-mapping id="home">
		<pattern> /home </pattern>
		<query-param name="displayWelcomeMessage">#{homeBean.displayWelcomeMessage}</query-param>
		<view-id> #{homeBean.getViewPath} </view-id>
	</url-mapping>
	<url-mapping id="viewStory">
		<pattern> 
			/story/#{myBean.currentStoryId}/ 
		</pattern>
		<view-id> /faces/story/viewStory.jsf </view-id>
		<action>#{myBean.loadStory}</action>
	</url-mapping>
	<url-mapping id="viewComment">
		<pattern>
			/story/#{myBean.currentStoryId}/#{myBean.commentId}
		</pattern>
		<view-id>/faces/story/comment.jsf</view-id>
		<action>#{myBean.loadComment}</action>
	</url-mapping>
</pretty-config>

public class ManagedBean
{
    public String getViewPath()
    {
        // This method returns the path of the JSF view to display
        // when the URL /home is accessed.
        if(user.isLoggedIn())
        {
        	// Note: the extension '.jsf' is the mapped faces extension
        	return "/faces/home.jsf";
        }
 
        // The home page can instead display a different view; return
        // the pretty:mappingId of the view you wish to display.
        // Note that this will not cause a redirect, and will not 
        // change the client browser URL.
        // If you wish to issue a redirect, you should use a page
        // load action instead of a dynamic view Id function.
        return "pretty:login";
    }
}

<pretty-config>
	<url-mapping id="itemList">
		<pattern> /items/list </pattern>
		<query-param name="sortBy">#{itemBean.sortByField}</query-param>
		<query-param name="itemId">#{itemBean.currentItemId}</query-param>
		<view-id> /faces/items/list.jsf </view-id>
		<action>#{itemBean.loadItems}</action>
	</url-mapping>
</pretty-config>

public class ItemBean
{
	private List<Item> items;
	private Integer currentItemId;
	private String sortByField;
 
	public String deleteItem()
	{
		// currentItemId will be automatically populated by
		// PrettyFaces if the parameter was passed in the request
		// (see example JSF page below)
		ItemManager.deleteById(currentItemId);
 
		// Redisplay the current page via redirect.
		return "pretty:"
	}
 
	public void loadItems()
	{
		// The sortByField member will be null if the sortBy
		// query-parameter is not found in the request
		this.items = ItemManager.getSortedItems(sortByField);
	}
 
	//... getters and setters...
}

<c:forEach var="item" items="${itemBean.items}">
	<h:commandLink>
		Delete this item.
		<f:param name="itemId" value="${item.id}" />
	</h:commandLink>
</c:forEach>

public class PageBean
{
    public String goHome()
    {
        // this will tell pretty to redirect the client to the home-page
        // no parameters are mapped, so this is pretty simple
        return "pretty:home";
    }
 
    public String goHomeAndWelcome()
    {
        // this will tell pretty to redirect the client to the home-page
        // since there is a managed query-parameter defined in the mapping,
        // PrettyFaces will generate the URL, and append the mapped param
        // eg: /home?displayWelcome=true 
        homeBean.displayWelcomeMessage(true);
        return "pretty:home";
    }
 
    public String goViewStory()
    {
        // this will tell pretty to redirect the client to the viewStory page
        // PrettyFaces will generate the URL by extracting any values from
        // the mapping beans and using them to inject back into the pattern
        // therefore, navigation can be controlled by placing a value into
        // the mapped field before PrettyFaces extracts it and generates the URL
	// so... /story/#{myBean.currentStoryId}/ ...becomes... /story/12/ 
 
        viewStoryBean.setCurrentStoryId(12);
        return "pretty:viewStory";
    }
 
    public String doRefreshByRedirect()
    {
        // using the "pretty:" prefix without a mapping-id will cause a
        // redirect to the current page
        return "pretty:";
    }
 
    public String doNormalJSFRender()
    {
        // returning an value without the "pretty:" prefix will fall back to
        // the default JSF navigation handlers
        return "someNavigationCase";
    }
}

<!-- From pretty-config.xml, viewComment mapping-id, above:
 /story/#{myBean.currentStoryId}/#{myBean.commentId}-->
<pretty:link mappingId="comment">
	<f:param value="#{myBean.currentStoryId}"/>
	<f:param value="#{myBean.commentId}"/>
	Go to Comment. (This is Link Text)
</pretty:link>

<!-- From the managed-query-parameter section above, itemList mapping-id.-->
<pretty:urlbuffer
	var="itemListUrl"
	mappingId="itemList">
	<f:param name="itemId" value="22" />
	<f:param name="sortBy" value="price" />
</pretty:urlbuffer>
<h:outputText
	value="Generated Url Is: #{requestScope.itemListUrl}" />
<!-- /items/list?itemId=22&sortBy=price -->
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