Dave, You're a valuable resource to the Struts board! Pascal should pay attention to what you say.
Paul On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kawczynski, David wrote: > Sitemesh doesn't build the entire page... it is a Filter that grabs the > response text (immediately before the servlet container sends it to the > client) and adds to it. Decorators contain what is added to the > response. I've found that if your decorators require a lot of run-time > logic then yes, it will take more time then if it were never modified. > (Exactly how much time depends on the decorator's logic.) Otherwise, > the time to decorate a page is negligible. Be smart when writing your > decorators... for instance, mapping different decorators to the > diverging URI patterns is an easy way to avoid the time penalty > associated with logic in decorators. > > HTH, > -dave > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pascal [mailto:pas...@voidmage.net] >> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:13 AM >> To: Struts Users Mailing List >> Subject: Re: Tags as template parameters? >> >> I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want. >> There is one >> thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will >> build the page >> every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I >> mistaken there? >> >> Pascal >> >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> >> wrote: >> > I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, >> > you should take a look at sitemesh. >> > >> > -W >> > >> > On 7/17/09, Pascal <pas...@voidmage.net> wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> >> >> in Struts2 it is possible to do something like >> >> >> >> <html> >> >> <body> >> >> <s:myMainNavigationMenu /> >> >> >> >> <h1>A page</h1> >> >> <p>Some content</p> >> >> </body> >> >> </html> >> >> >> >> This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single >> >> page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for >> >> example. >> >> >> >> Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? >> >> >> >> <s:useTemplate name="myCommonTemplate"> >> >> <s:setTemplateTag name="body"> >> >> <h1>A page</h1> >> >> <p>Some content</p> >> >> </s:setTemplateTag> >> >> </s:useTemplate> >> >> >> >> And as template definition say >> >> >> >> <!-- Main menu --> >> >> <table>...</table> >> >> >> >> <s:insertTemplateTag name="body" /> >> >> >> >> <!-- Footer --> >> >> <p>This is the footer</p> >> >> >> >> I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they >> >> obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the >> tags there as I >> >> did in my example. >> >> >> >> Also, I could do something like >> >> >> >> <s:myMainTemplate> >> >> <s:param name="bodyPage" value="page1.jsp" /> >> >> </s:myMainTemplate> >> >> >> >> which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) >> page. >> >> >> >> So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to >> templates? Maybe you >> >> have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting >> here, I would >> >> be eager to hear them! :-) >> >> >> >> Pascal >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org >> >> > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, > New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known > outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or > MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is > available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be > confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this > message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this > message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and > then delete it from your system. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
