Is there any complete Howto or Tutorial right now on this issue? Should be really of interest ...
Thank you, Basti Jeromy Evans - Blue Sky Minds wrote: > > Varun Narang wrote: >> Hello all, >> I want to get started with the customzied tag writing for Struts2. >> I was able to find out ftl files for corresponding HTML elements. >> Actually, I want to start writing tags which are integrated with ExtJS >> library. >> > One of the developers recently mentioned they is writing a document > about how to do this and I think there was talk about creating a maven > archetype. > > In the mean-time, try following some of existing code. The current > version of the struts2 yui plugin provides a nice simple example as it > only contains two tags and is packaged as a a plugin > (http://code.google.com/p/struts2yuiplugin/source). > > I find it's easiest to follow that example completely - use the maven > plugin to generate the TLD and package your tags as a struts2 plugin. > This isn't mandatory though as you can write the TLD by hand and include > the classes in your webapp directly. > > In general: > 1. create a bean that extends UIBean or ClosingUIBean (for open & close > tags), identifies the templates and populates the template context > 2. create a tag class that extends AbstractUITag that creates the bean > instance and sets the properties of the bean > 3. create the templates referenced by the bean > > After completing these 3 steps you can start using your tag if you write > a TLD and include it in your classpath. If you copy the pom.xml from > the example able you can use maven to generate the TLD (if you've used > the appropriate annotations). > > The remaining steps allowing your tags to be uses within freemarker and > velocity templates (rather than only JSP) > > 4. Create a TagLibrary and TagModels for Freemarker and Directive's for > velocity > 5. Create struts-plugin.xml that declares your TagLibrary bean > > Hope that helps, > regards, > Jeromy Evans > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Custom-Tags-for-Struts2-tp14289600p15433553.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
