On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
I have gone to this link:
http://struts.apache.org/struts-tiles/installation.html
I am looking for those 3 WAR files listed but I can't find them.
The link in this paragraph is
broken so I can't get to the distribution: "First, download a
binary distribution of Tiles by
following the instructions <<--here-->>. Then, make sure you have
downloaded and installed the
prerequisite software packages described above."
Someone needs to fix the website.
The website is out of date. I'm in the process of fixing it in svn
but haven't copied it over to the site directory yet - maybe today?
Those .war files are not being built anymore.
You should be able to configure the Tiles Servlet like this:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Tiles Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.tiles.servlets.TilesServlet</
servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>definitions-config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
In any event, I want to know if anyone has used Tiles without
Struts. If you're doing the XML
method, I know you need a controller in the middle to decide which
Tile to load. So that's really
Struts or Spring. Has anyone done that? Just wanting to know.
You don't have to use a controller servlet. You can insert a tile
from a JSP. It's not pretty, but here's how it might be done:
In tiles-defs.xml
<definition name="main" path="/mailLayout.jsp">
....
<put name="body" value="/body.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="child" extends="main">
<put name="body" value="/aPage.jsp"/>
</definition>
In your web app you'd have the following JSPs:
/mainLayout.jsp
/body.jsp
/aPage.jsp
/aPageTiles.jsp
/aPageTiles.jsp would look like this:
<tiles:insert definition="child"/>
Then you would link to /aPageTiles.jsp. I know this isn't elegant,
but it works. I'm looking at better ways to do this sort of thing
with Standalone Tiles using a Filter or something.
HTH,
Greg
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