Re: Re: Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Clark
Alan Chaney wrote: Correct me if I am wrong but you want to have a > level of configuration which is more than just > appearance. It's mostly for appearance but that also ties in with functionality. For example, if a page displays the preferences that a user can change, a skin author can change

Re: Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Clark
Lucas wrote: To answer the original question, there is a > mechanism that Tomcat provides to handle the > specific thing you want to achieve. The solution > is very Tomcat specific, so I do not really > recommend it, anyhow, if you really _need_to_have > _this_ then the way to achieve it is th

Re: Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Clark
Hassan wrote: I think that this is a non-starter because the app is already written (quite nicely, I might add) in straight JSPs. If it's already "quite nicely" written, why doesn't > it do what you want? :-) Excellent point! But ultimately there are limitations in the extensibility of th

Re: Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-21 Thread Andy Clark
Thanks for everyone with their quick responses to my query regarding how to override tags/JSP files. My initial posts on the subject can be found here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/200804.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/200804

Re: Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-21 Thread Andy Clark
Pid wrote: Andy Clark wrote: I want Jasper to look for JSP and Tag files in a >> specific location (e.g. based on a request param); >> and then fall back to a default location if the >> file is not found. This would be extremely useful for skinning a webapp. Cascading S

Bending Jasper to My Will

2008-04-18 Thread Andy Clark
I have been going through the Jasper source code to figure out how to make it do what I want but have been unsuccessful. So I thought I would ask the experts. (Please let me know if there is a better forum for this particular question.) I want Jasper to look for JSP and Tag files in a specific lo