Rod:
The functionality will be exactly the same for
each site.
How do I tell struts to load a given set of
tiles based on the domain name?
Thanks,
Neil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Bollinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [S2] Best approach to separate look & feel with
> same backend code
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> When you say Look and Feel are you referring to just the
> visual aspects of
> the site or are you referring to a marked difference in front-end
> functionality?
>
> If you are not providing differing functionality or the
> functionality being
> provided is mostly similar to the current site, your best
> approach will be
> to use CSS to make one site look and feel different than the
> other site.
>
> Additionally, if your current site is not already using
> Tiles, you should
> consider refactoring to add this flexibility. With a Tiles
> and CSS-based
> approach you can completely re-use your current middle and
> back-end tiers
> with little or no modification.
>
> You do not need a whole new set of JSPs, simply a flexible
> view structure
> and a well-defined view decoration strategy (Tiles and/or CSS
> to modify
> structure and CSS to modify the presentation).
>
> Lastly, if you are relying on certain behaviors (Javascript),
> these should
> be designed such that they are generic. As such they may be
> applied to one
> or more of your sites independent of the structure and
> presentation of a
> given site.
>
> The only reason you would need an entirely different set of
> JSPs would be if
> they were providing a completely different application of the
> underlying
> information (back-end). As there should be no business or
> control logic in
> your JSPs, I still would think about the above approach
> before taking such
> drastic measures as re-creating everything.
>
> HTH,
> -Rod
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Aggarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 14:05
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Subject: [S2] Best approach to separate look & feel with same
> backend code
>
> Hello:
>
> I am trying to figure out the best way to do this:
>
> I have two domains.
>
> I am going to develop two different web sites
> which will use the same backend database and have
> the same functionality, just a different look and
> feel.
>
> Should I:
>
> 1. Create two separate webapps? That seems poor
> since there will be a lot of duplicated code.
>
> 2. Create one webapp and pass around a site identifier?
> Then, I can load the correct set of JSPs based
> on the identifier?
>
> Any suggestions for the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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