You can also have a look to my Components proposal, which can be seen as an extended version of the Struts JSP Templates (and is compatible with David Geary's proposal).
http://gauss.ficsgrp.com/cdm
Components Features :
- Components Concept.
- A component is a JSP page that can be assembled in any JSP pages, and that can take "parameters" (String, URLs, List, ...).
- If well defined, components can be reused across pages.
- Can propose "library" of reusable components.
- A component can take lists as parameters :
- You can define a "menu" component, and pass it a list of items to show, and a list of links. You can reuse this components as often as you want.
- You can define a "portal" component, and pass it a lists of sub-components to include !
- Template mechanism (Compatible with Struts JSP Templates).
- A template is a page made of components ...
- Component Instances :
- You fix some parameters of your component (like URLs of header and footer), and you got an instance .
- Central definition of instances in an XML file.
- An instance can inherit from another instance. This allows to define a main instance , with fixed header, title, body, footer and menu, and let other instances inherit from it, just overiding requested parameters (usually body and title).
- A "forward" in struts-config file can specify an instance as target.
Vincent Harcq wrote:
After reading the User Guide, I am not sure if Struts does have a Templating
Mechanism or not.
By that I mean one (or 2 or 3) that defines the basic structure of the site
in 3 (for example) parts : a header, the left panel and a body. This
template will always be the jsp:forward and have two jsp:include to include
the two static (for example) header and left panes pages and one jsp:include
that would get a parameter from the request to now which page to include.
Something similar to the PetStore example.I like that because it push a lot of DIV or LAYER HTML code in only the
template page.Is it possible ?
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