A little tidbit that I though I’d share. While playing with the Google App Engine (GAE) version of the OpenBD CFML engine I noticed that SES friendly URL’s weren’t working for me. After a small search I came across a bug entry on the OpenBD site that suggested that the SES filter is not setup in the GAE version by default, and that the following XML needed to be added to the WEB-INF/web.xml configuration file.

<filter>
	<filter-name>SearchEngineFriendlyURLFilter</filter-name>
	<display-name>SearchEngineFriendlyURLFilter</display-name>
	<description>SearchEngineFriendlyURLFilter</description>
	<filter-class>com.newatlanta.filters.SearchEngineFriendlyURLFilter</filter-class>
	<init-param>
		<param-name>extensions</param-name>
		<param-value>cfm,cfml</param-value>
	</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
	<filter-name>SearchEngineFriendlyURLFilter</filter-name>
	<url-pattern>/index.cfm/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

This is to be inserted just before the closing tag. After a quick restart of the OpenBD context, I was good to go.

Happy coding!