Re: Tiles - retrofit existing struts based wars

2004-05-17 Thread Joe Germuska
At 11:36 AM -0500 5/17/04, Kravchenko, Vyacheslav wrote:
We have multiple wars deployed on WebSpehere server. All of our 
applications are using on Struts 1.1.
I was hoping to find a way and retrofit tiles framework in our 
existing environment.
Can we develop a separate tiles application that can integrate with 
existing apps in following ways:
	Use tiles framework to display jsp files from other wars?
	Use ActionMappings in my existing wars to point to templates 
defined in tiles application.
I haven't heard of anything which lets Tiles choreograph between 
multiple webapps.  That's not to say that its impossible, but just 
that you might have to write it yourself.

If you're using Servlet 2.3 or newer, you may want to have a look at 
Sitemesh.  I haven't used it, but my understanding is that it uses 
Servlet Filters to decorate pages so that you can apply a consistent 
look.
http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/  I'm not 100% certain that it 
can deal with content from across multiple applications, but i think 
it can because I think I've even read about it being used to decorate 
static content.

Joe
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Tiles - retrofit existing struts based wars

2004-05-17 Thread Kravchenko, Vyacheslav
We have multiple wars deployed on WebSpehere server. All of our applications are using 
on Struts 1.1. 
I was hoping to find a way and retrofit tiles framework in our existing environment. 
Can we develop a separate tiles application that can integrate with existing apps in 
following ways:
Use tiles framework to display jsp files from other wars?
Use ActionMappings in my existing wars to point to templates defined in tiles 
application.

Thanks in advance, 
Steve