Ok, Now I believe. I traced to code back to the Java Core and it will only take a file :(
But I am going to try using a controller to dump the file from the database into a directory before it is "inserted" as a way around this. The reason for all of this is that we provide a web application for our customers and customize it to look like their website for uniform user experience. (Actually now that I say that it sounds like phishing - but it's not) And we have a template for each customer (over 400 and growing now). Anyway the legacy system is freemarker ontop of plain ol servlets. We are now moving to struts and tiles and I would like to have everything uniform - their templates in JSP just like ours, but without having to maintain hundreds of files in a file system. It just may not be practicle like Joe said. Sure wish Sun had a hook for that. It wouldn't be that hard to have a FileStream instead of a string to a file they are going to open now would it? :) -R On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:04:54 -0800, Richard Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I'll look at Velocity. I also know that I can achieve what I > want using Freemarker, but really this doesn't seem like much of a > stretch for Tiles. > > The <tiles:insert> tag already puts together seveal pieces of JSP code > before the servlet is generated by reading from a file. All I really > want to do is hand it a filestream that pulls information out of a > database instead of a filesystem. > > I guess I'll take a quick look at the code for the insert tag. > > > -R > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:18:19 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remember that ultimately, a JSP is a servlet, albeit one which is > > automatically created and compiled by transforming JSP syntax into > > Java. > > > > You would need to intervene in this sophisticated and low-level > > process in order to store JSP code in a database and still have it > > work. It's probably possible in theory, but likely far, far from > > practical. > > > > Velocity is probably better suited to your use case; it can do all of > > the basic things that JSP can do, and it is possible to use a variety > > of "resource loaders" to get templates and template fragments; it > > comes with loaders which read from the file system and from the > > classpath; there may already even be one which gets templates from a > > database. > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity > > > > Joe > > > > At 1:21 AM -0800 3/10/05, Richard Cox wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > > > >I am just coming up to speed on tiles and I have searched the archive > > >and not found the answer to this one. > > > > > >I want to import JSP "files" into my layout which are stored in a > > >database. The key issue is that there are JSP tags in the "file" > > >stored in the database that need to be evaluated as part of the page. > > > > > >I think a controller won't work because it returns information after > > >the JSP has been evaluated and the string in the database will contain > > >struts and JSTL tags which will get skipped. > > > > > >I think it is possible to get this effect from by extending the > > >DefinitionFactory class, but I am not sure. > > > > > >The other thought that I had was to get the source and extend the > > ><tiles:insert> tag so that instead of reading from a file, it reads > > >from the database. But that seems like overkill. > > > > > >Tiles looks great, and I think it can do 100% of what I need, but > > >right now I am missing the last 5% with this issue. > > > > > >Any thoughts or help is very much appreciated. > > > > > >-R > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Joe Germuska > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://blog.germuska.com > > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
