I've used tiles, validator and ApplicationResources.properties in a modules environment. You just have to configure your struts-config.xml and struts-config-module.xml to load the same files - pretty simple.
Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Vandivort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: modules use questions > > > Hello, > > I'm new to modules and have a few questions about how to use them > most effectively. > > my web app the general look and feel of having an html menu bar along > the left side of the screen and a "work" area that takes up the rest. > The "work" area can be handled by modules. This is a pretty straight > forward thing. > > All the different modules would then need to share the same left menu > bar. From what I'm seeing about modules, they are really totally self > contained. Where would I put the information (jsp's, beans, etc) that > service the left menu bar so that it isn't specific to a particular > module? > > (I'm also thinking I should be using tiles here, but to be frank, I'm > having trouble seeing what makes tiles all that much more useful than > doing includes in the jsp files) > > On a related note, all of the web app depends on the user being > identified as a user. How does this relate to modules? Can > all of the > modules access common code somewhere to accomplish things like user > authentication? > > Thanks in advance for the help on what are undoubtably dumb questions. > > -- > > Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and > Computational Biophysics > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3051 Beckman Institute > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois > Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave > Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[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]>
