I guess the piece that is escaping me is how do I do the template mapping without a template file and/or a way to remap files... It seems as though the filter would require me to write some hardcoded style static stuff.
The fact that this method would be portable outside of the struts framework is, however, a very good point and I'm going to have to investigate a little further... What I'm thinking is that, perhaps, having a way to run a tiles processor inside a filter would be a really great thing (or maybe even a velocity template filter?) It doesn't seem that tiles has any more of a learning curve than a filter would (not knowing a hell of a lot about filters myself), of course, being part of the spec would make me more inclined to use it perhaps. -----Original Message----- From: Eric W Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:43 PM To: Tag Libraries Users List Subject: RE: tiles+wsad [OT??] I guess you *could* hardcode the header and footer names. I would recommend setting this as an init-param to the filter and storing the header and footer files in the WEB-INF directory. If you wanted to do some more complicated wrapping, you could easily set this up with different filter mappings and init params. You do have to think about your filter mappings, though, since by default Struts uses forwards instead of redirects. You need to make sure you filter your action classes, because they send forwards to JSPs. This reason I suggested this route was because this method is portable across web applications, no matter what framework you are using. This is a bit of learning curve involved in Tiles as well. On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mainguy, Mike wrote: > I guess our pages are a little more involved than would be practical with a > Filter... I understand how to do this with a Filter, I just fail to see how > it is easier/better to do it using a Filter versus tiles.... With tiles I > just uncomment the plugin-in in struts-config.xml, create a template and I'm > running. > > My whole problem was that the wsad IDE reports a bunch of broken links and > cannot understand the tiles stuff. Not exactly a show stopper, but, kinda > irritating (since I get about 100 warnings that are totally meaningless [or > rather, they mean that wsad is unaware of tiles]). > > So, out of curiosity, are you saying you hardcode the header and footer jsp > names in your filter? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric W Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:34 PM > To: Tag Libraries Users List > Subject: RE: tiles+wsad [OT??] > > Yes, this is what I am talking about. You can write a filter to do > the same thing as tiles. It is very simple if all you need as a header > and a footer wrapped around each of your jsp pages. It gets a little more > complicated if you want to do some other stuff. There's a couple > different ways that you can implement this. I can't pass out the code > since it was developed for work, but do a search on google for something > like "jsp wrapper filter". That should get you started. > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mainguy, Mike wrote: > > > Are you talking about the javax.servlet.Filter interface? If so, how does > > that give me the same functionality as tiles? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Eric W Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:19 AM > > To: Tag Libraries Users List > > Subject: RE: tiles+wsad [OT??] > > > > Depending on what servlet container you are using, I would just recommend > > not using tiles. If you are using a Servlet 2.3 container, then I would > > recommend attempting to accomplish the same functionality of tiles using a > > filter instead. It's pretty simple to implement, not to mention a lot > > less complicated. Tiles, as I have found with a lot of Struts components, > > are a lot more complicated than they really need to be. > > > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mainguy, Mike wrote: > > > > > That's the answer I keep getting and I was just hoping someone had > devised > > a > > > more clever solution than that (because that doesn't seem too clever to > > me). > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Pembroke, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:24 AM > > > To: 'Tag Libraries Users List' > > > Subject: RE: tiles+wsad [OT??] > > > > > > The only thing you can do, is to turn off the struts validation in your > > > preferences. > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mainguy, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:17 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: tiles+wsad [OT??] > > > > > > > > > > > > Any body using wsad with tiles? 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