Thanks. I am familiarizing with the 'tiles' part of Struts, meanwhile a quick question.
It seems like tiles can help me change personalize the layout of a single page. I have one more specific requirement. Let us say that my HTML form is distributed across 2 or 3 separate HTML pages, which are navigated using back, next buttons. I would like the end user to be able to personalise by specifying which components of the form are available on which page. For example, the user may want to move a not-so-important field for him from page 1 to page 3. Any ideas/design patterns/frameworks for this kind of a requirement? Suresh -----Original Message----- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Configurable UI Design There are several frameworks that do just what you want. Struts and/or Cocoon from Apache.org Have you looked at either? Specifically the 'tiles' component (struts) allows you to do this.... http://www.open-tools.org/struts-tiles http://www.open-tools.org/tiles-channel http://www.open-tools.org/tiles-doc http://www.open-tools.org/tiles-template I am not the author of these, I just happen to have them running on my server at home... Here is the Struts homepage.... http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html and here is Cocoon..... http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/index.html Good Luck! James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Suresh Addagalla > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M > Subject: Configurable UI Design > > > Hi, > > I am looking for some resources/articles which discuss about building a > customizable/configurable UI. The basic framework is a web application > in servlets/JSP generating HTML based on the configuration of a > particular installation. Apart from providing customization with respect > to colours and fonts, I am looking at something more -- like customizing > the layout of pages, position of components on a page, hiding certain > components on a page, changing the labels on the page and buttons, etc. > -- while having little or no code changes for each installation. > > What is your opinion about generating XML data and using XSL to generate > different HTML pages? Does this involve a lot of work for each > installation? > > Thanks, > Suresh > >
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