My 2c...
If you are only going to *ever* have a few jsp pages, say 5 or less, then it
seems fine to me. However beyond that I think it will quickly become
unweildy.
I don't know if you are interested in following the MVC architecture, and
certainly for only a few pages it is not worth it, but if you are then it
seems to me that there is some conflict since the 'template' page will be
doing some (but not all) of both the View and the Controler portions of the
architecture.
Cheers
Adrian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Carklin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 10 January 2003 09:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: advice on jsp include
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a web app in which all the pages have exactly the same header,
> side bar and footer. At first I was going to make these 3 seperate jsp
> files and use a jsp include, (probably the <%@ include %> since the
> pages won't change?).
>
> Then the web designer returned a 'template' to me which had all 3 on one
> page, laid out, with an area, a table cell which contains the actual
> difference for each page, the idea being that if I have 10 different
> pages I can make 10 copies of the template and just fill in the table
> cell. So then I thought, what about just having the one 'template' page
> which all the webapp links reference, and include the portion that
> changes, using the include statement and using a request attribute to
> tell the page what to include. For example like this:
>
> <c:choose>
> <c:when test="${showPage=='Page1'}">
> <jsp:include flush="true" page="_page1.jsp"/>
> </c:when>
> <c:when test="${showPage=='Page2'}">
> <jsp:include flush="true" page="_page2.jsp"/>
> </c:when>
> <c:when test="${showPage=='etc'}">
> <jsp:include flush="true" page="_etc.jsp"/>
> </c:when>
> <c:otherwise>
> <jsp:include flush="true" page="_login.jsp"/>
> </c:otherwise>
> </c:choose>
>
> I hope I being clear.
>
> I guess what I'm asking is the pro's cons of such a setup. I haven't
> really seen anyone else doing it and am wondering if this is because it
> increases compilation time significantly or something else I don't know
> about. Is there a better way to do it?
>
> Any comments / criticisms appreciated
>
> Thanks
> Joel
>
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