http://tacos.sourceforge.net/hivemind/SiteMap.html
It does almost exactly what you describe, except the UI portions are really more of an after thought, with the core work being done in a full fledged hivemind service. The tacos demo navigation system is built using this, but one could easily make the ui render drop-down menus or any style you want. On 3/13/06, Rob Dennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am writing a small sample app to demonstrate a menu component to my > boss. I want to populate this menu using an xml file. Later I may change > to using a database. I wrote a pojo that is supposed to read the xml doc > describing the menu and parse its contents into java beans for use by the > component. The problem I am having is how to give the pojo access to the > xml file. I could have the page that contains the component inject the > service, inject the xml asset and pass the asset's input stream to the > service, but I want to keep the details of how things work from my pages and > components. There must be some way to inject the file into the pojo using > HiveMind, but I am not sure where to look. I want also want to know if I > can specify the xml file location relative to the web context. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Rob > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 > > >