My goal was to form a complete example of a working Tiles/JSP example independently of Struts. However the links are dead in the current version. Also, I believe some of the documentation is dated, and some of what comes back from a GIS are leftover descriptions from an older version of Tiles. I have created a fixed example that fits with some of the previous documentation, but actually will work in the case of using Tiles definitions.
Tiles Background 1. The <a href="http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/installation.html";>Tiles installation document</a> states that in order to use Tiles independently, you would use the TilesServlet, located in the struts-tiles-VERSION.jar. There is not a TilesServlet, nor a struts-tiles-VERSION.jar, in the struts-1.2.9-src, -lib, or -bin deliveries. The <a href="http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/installation.html";>Tiles installation document</a> has a dead link to http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/cvs-usage.html. 2. The <a href="http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/faq.html";>Tiles FAQ page</a> has a dead link to http://cvs.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/nightly/sandbox/tiles-core/. 3. The example in the <a href="http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/apidocs/org/apache/struts/tiles/package-summary.html";>API from 1.x Struts</a> has some extra escaping of &gt; characters. 4. The http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/examples.html (Examples from 1.x Struts) page is incomplete. 5. The http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/tagreference.html definition tag does not mention name. Name is a required attribute for definition. Solutions 1. To use the Tiles in the current version of Struts, you will need to use the Struts servlet. I have uploaded a working example with all of the necessary components (minus the libraries) at http://www.guesttime.com/members/ledlogic/struts/TilesTest-0.1-src.jar If you build this and deploy the war to a webserver, there are 3 examples in the line of the original struts examples, one for pure JSP (/jsp/jspExample.jsp), one with JSP + tiles (/jsp/tilesExample.jsp), and the last is (/jsp/tilesXMLExample.jsp). 2. I am not sure if there are nightly builds somewhere for tiles. Who manages these for Struts? 3. The javadoc needs to be fixed in the java source for the tiles package. 4. Perhaps some of the information here could be incorporated. Do you need someone to finish the documentation for Tiles? If so I can help. 5. See the above example source package for an example. I used name, not id. Here is the sample code: <definition name="tilesXMLDefinition" template="/jsp/layout.jsp"> <put name="title" value="Tiles XML Definition Example" /> <put name="header" value="/jsp/header.jsp" /> <put name="body" value="/jsp/body.jsp" /> </definition> Jeff Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] dmitri2060 on ebay / half.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
