portal concepts [was: what would it take to build site navigation into struts?]

2004-03-19 Thread Andrew Freeman
After taking a BroadVision One-To-One Portal Developer Workshop this week and seeing how BroadVision uses Struts, I have come to realize that some of the functionality that their product provides could be built directly into Struts itself. Let's start with a simple site map: 0. Root 1. Home

Re: portal concepts [was: what would it take to build site navigation into struts?]

2004-03-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Are you aiming to put Broadvision out of business? ;) It sounds like quite a task. The admin tool that you use to build page heirarchies - how does it store the info? XML presumably? And the XML is read by the application at run-time. And so your plug-in would do the same - read its config

Re: what would it take to build site navigation into struts?

2004-03-17 Thread Adam Hardy
You're talking about breadcrumbs as site navigation - just to be clear, because there is another implementation of breadcrumbs as history navigation. It is relatively simple to implement (and maintain) a navigation breadcrumb menu using Tiles, which shows the position of your page in the

what would it take to build site navigation into struts?

2004-03-16 Thread Andrew Freeman
I have been learning about a web portal tool called BroadVision Portal. One of the nice things that it provides out of the box are breadcrumbs. It allows you to define a hierarchical navigation system where each level of the hierarchy can have a sub-navigation element and/or one or more content