In the context of building reusable JSP components, I have been confronted with the following limitation that both the Struts templating and the Components from Cedric Dumoulin currently have. In a word, this limitation is actually due to the fact that none of them provide a way to perform an action specific to the included JSP. For example, an application home page may be composed of a body that actually corresponds to another page in the web application. In this case, the body is already modeled with a mapping and an action that performs the necessary logic to retrieve the dynamic content. When servicing the home page, one would logically like to reuse that action in order to avoid the duplication of its logic in the action servicing the home page. One way to do this would be to directly call the action to reuse within the perform() of the action servicing the home page. However this is not very flexible because it requires manual intervention. My short research in past postings actually seems to indicate that this problem has been mentioned before under various forms. A proposal for a portal framework was discussed before, and such framework would require such feature. In one instance the Jetspeed framework was considered for integration with Struts. In another case one talked about allowing the ActionServlet to do both forwards and includes. My questions then are: - has anybody else been confronted to this limitation, and if so, did you avoid the problem (for example by using frames) or did you find a solution? - would such a feature be considered for inclusion in either Struts or the Components framework from Cedric Dumoulin? - anybody having further thoughts on this issue? Thanks for your feedback on this topic. François Rey Financial WebSuite The Capital Markets Company http://www.capco.com/ ************************************************************************ The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of The Capital Markets Company. http://www.capco.com ***********************************************************************