David, thanks for your help. I figured out a simple solution to the problem which looks like it will work.
BTW the "Tiles Advanced Features PDF" is an excellent resource - thanks. Lots of good patterns and examples. William ----- Original Message ----- From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 12:27 AM Subject: RE: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > If you are only serving HTML pages and want to wrap them in your standard > layout, forget tiles and check out SiteMesh: > www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh > > The Tiles mapping I suggested can do more complex things for you than > SiteMesh. It would require setting up a tiles controller. They are > explained well, and with examples, in the Tiles Advanced Features PDF. See > the Struts' site's UserGuide on Tiles for a link at the bottom of the page > to that PDF. > > Regards, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:39 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > > > Doh - I guess I wasn't clear enough. > > I want to have the Requests for the html pages (Section2) forwarded to a > standardLayout page which uses tiles to provide consistent screens. The > originally targetted html page needs to be included/embedded within the > standardLayout page. > > David, I guess I could be missing something (wouldn't be the first time), > but I don't think your solution will give me that will it? Its more about > allowing the html files to themselves contain a tile. > > If I could somehow get the html requests to be forwarded to a single page, > then I could do it. > But I can't see how to do this without using a 2nd ActionServlet which > brings me back in the original pain. > > > William > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:35 PM > Subject: RE: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > > > > William, > > > > For Section 2, IF you are using the same webapp, you can make a tile show > up > > in a JSP without using the Actionservlet (you just need to have the Struts > > plugIn initialize the tiles from the tiles xml configuration. Try > creating > > a JSP with this type of syntax: > > > > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> > > <tiles:insert definition="loginDef"/> > > > > Now, to get the *.html mapping to work, you'd have to reonfigure yout > > application server to map *.html pages so they are handled by the JSP > > engine. In tomcat, you can do that like this: > > > > <servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> > > <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> > > </servlet-mapping> > > > > Regards, > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: William Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:36 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > > > > > > I'm trying to create a WebApp with 2 sections. > > > > Section1 consists of Struts Actions managed by an ActionServlet and using > > Tiles for consistent layout. The incoming requests will always be '*.do'. > > > > Section2 is a bunch of generated html fragments (each is a page's worth) > > that I would like to embed in the Tiles I'm already using in Section1. Ie > > Request for html page comes in and it is forwarded to the Tile page which > > embeds the originally requested page. The incoming requests will always be > > 'foo/<htmlpagename>.html' > > > > I thought I had it nailed. > > > > Attempt1: Have the request for Section2 be handled by its own > ActionServlet, > > with a very simple custom RequestProcessor. But Struts only allows a > single > > instance of ActionServlet (or subclass) within a WebApp. > > > > Atempt2: Use a single ActionServlet and either use a separate Module for > > each section, or use a wildcard ActionMapping to catch all of Section2's > > html requests. But Struts only allows a single servlet-mapping element for > > the controller-servlet and I would need 2 (*.do and foo/*.html). NB > further > > Struts restriction is that when using Modules you can only use extension > > paths in your servlet-mappings. > > > > > > Attempt3: ??? I'm looking for ideas. > > At the moment the only solution I can see is to implement my own Servlet > > (not an ActionServlet subclass) which then uses the Tiles config and > > mechanism to render the Section2 response with the required layout. > > > > Is there a better way? > > > > thanks in advance. > > > > William > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
