Take a look at tiles.. Its part of Struts 1.1 (currently in beta 2 I believe) or can be obtained separately.. The link to the current tiles docs are at http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/, unless they got moved to the struts contrib directory recently..
James > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:29 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: Decorators? > > > Greetings, > > A question I thought I'd run by the group here; surely > someone else has found the appropriate approach. > > The plan is to build a struts-based site that has a > standard templated layout. I've got a standard template.jsp > which is a table that imports a header, footer, navigation > panel, and a content pane: > > /------------------------\ > | header.jsp | > +------------------------+ > | | | > | navbar.jsp | _________ | > | | | > | | | > +------------------------+ > | footer.jsp | > \-----------------------/ > > the header.jsp, footer.jsp, and navbar.jsp while dynamic > are largely just a decorator around the actual functioning > application that will go in the content page. The > template.jsp will be passed (request parameter) the name of > the JSP to include in the page each time it is drawn. > > So, what are my architectural options here. > > I experimented with forwarding all of my actions > (/login.do, /logout.do, > ...) to the same action as a dispatcher each with a property > that describes the URI of what is to be included in the > content area. But in the case of forms the RequestProcessor > seems to detect that there is no form and forwards to the > form page which them shows up without the decoration. > > Is this the sort of thing that the RequestProcessor could > be used to do, like a servlet filter, to touch up the > outgoing markup? But, the decorator isn't completely > 'static', for instance the navbar.jsp wants to know what's > going in the content area so it can change it's representation. > > Thoughts? > > --lee > > -- > Lee Crawford > Trintech, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
