--- Richard Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. Is tiles considered a deprecated technique?
No, Tiles has replaced the old Struts templates taglib. I use Tiles in my apps and it works fine for my uses. Cedric is really the only Struts committer that knows enough about Tiles to make any substantial changes (because he initially wrote it). I have made bugfixes and improvements but they have been rather small changes. I haven't seen much development activity on Tiles recently but that certainly doesn't mean it's deprecated. David > > I too would like to know the status of Tiles and whether there's any > ongoing development with it. I'm looking at redesigning a proprietary > composite page handler to use Tiles but see a number of areas where > tiles could be improved and where it is not suitable at present to meet > all of my requirements: > > o Firstly, Tiles assumes that a page is composed of multiple content > areas where you have one piece of content to an area. This is true for > a simplistic site but, as in the case we have, the area on a page can be > determined by a condition so that a single area could contain say one of > many possible files. An example would be a page where the display > differs slightly per category of user and some areas within the template > are populated by different content. The ability to conditionally choose > a template would also be beneficial. It is possible to create a custom > tag to wrap the <tiles:put ...> in each page but this results in the > page being uneditable by the growing number of tiles compliant editors > and therefore they would be unable to give any improvement in > productivity when creating pages. > > Has anyone else created pages this way using another composite page > handler or product? > > o Secondly, would it make sense to have a 'static' identifier that > could be used to perform the equivalent of a <%@ include ...> directive > to embed content and thereby result in more optimised code? The static > attribute would be environment switchable to allow the static > functionality to be disabled during development but enabled when > deployed in a production environment. > > Comments and suggestions, please. > > Regards > Richard Tomlinson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
