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
>
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