Using RESTful URLs on your Spring 3 MVC Webapp

This blog comes as an answer to a question from a reader. Now, as a rule, I don’t do request blogs, but I thought that this sounded like an interesting topic. The question refers to my blog from July 11 on accessing request parameters using Spring 3 MVC and was “Do you know how to encode the uuid so it is not visible to the user for security concerns?”. The answer is “Yes”, but that would make for a very short blog.

Base64 Encoding with Apache and Sun Libraries

Base64 is a encoding scheme that is commonly used to create a textual representation of binary data. This is usually needed for either transmission of that data via a text based medium such as email, or storage in a text base repository. I don't intend to go into great depth on this as there is a full explanation on wikipedia.