i don't know much about tiles, but couldn't you achieve this effect by putting just <IFRAME>s in each of your template elements? Each <IFRAME> would then be a separate pass at the server, effectively giving you a unique Action for each element of your template.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/2002 12:07:27 >>> Hmm, it is similar in some ways but not exactly what I'm talking about. My goal is to have a templated page where each element of the page can be rendered by a different struts action. So I can have a header, content, footer, etc action called by a single tile. This can work with the TilesRequestProcessor as there is code there ( assuming you have a compatible servlet container, I don't ) to change all forwards after the first one to includes. The change I was proposing would allow the developer to explicitly do an include instead of a forward. There is already a redirect parameter. I thought it would be beneficial to be able to include as well. I need this change because of the way my servlet container treats forwards. I would guess that other developers could use this capability. Perhaps not. Either way I am looking for feedback for the idea. -----Original Message----- From: David Graham [mailto:dgraham1980@;hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Suggested Change in ActionForwards This sounds very similar to the 1.1 feature of putting tiles in the forward like: <forward name="success" path="account.form.myFormTile" /> This tells Tiles to process the account.form.myFormTile definition and construct the response. Does that meet your needs? David >From: "Ken Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Suggested Change in ActionForwards >Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:23:52 -0500 > >Hi all, > >Recently I've had a good deal of trouble with templates after upgrading my >servlet container. It seems my container vendor has revisited their >interpretation of forwards in the JSP spec which broke my application >horribly. Several people on this list ( thanks Cedric and others ) gave me >good suggestions about how to get my app up and going again. Unfortunately, >my servlet container made it very difficult for any quick-fix solution >that I tried. The solution that finally solved my problem involved adding >a new 'feature' to the ActionForward and a slight addition to >the struts-config.dtd. I wanted to share the idea with the group to see >if these additions might be helpful to the rest of the community. > >What I've done is add an include parameter for the <forward> tag in the >struts-config.xml file. This tells the ActionServlet (I'm currently working >with 1.02) to do an include instead of a forward after processing the >action. This is similar to the redirect parameter that already exists. >What this allows me to do is explicitly declare that the target >of the <forward> is in fact not a complete page but is a fragment meant >to be included in a template (or tile). This also allows me to have each >element of the template (or tile) be an action. > >The TilesRequestProcessor currently will do an include instead of a forward >if the request.isCommitted() is true. This is nice (except it doesn't work >with my #@%& servlet container) but I would like to be able to explicitly >declare this behavior in the base struts package so that the developer has >control of the way forwards operate. > >So, a forward that needs to be an include looks like ><forward name="success" path="/jsp/myPage.jsp" include="true"/> >where include is an optional parameter that defaults to false. > >I've made the few code changes in my local version of 1.02. I would be >willing >to submit the changes to the current tree if the powers that be think that >this would be good for the package. > >Thanks for any feedback or <ul>constructive</ul> criticism :). > >Ken > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
