Hi Antonio, Thanks for responding.
>Short answer: no. But the question is: what do you want it for? Yes. I should have clarified. Basically we want to leverage tiles to create a 'poor man's portal' (i.e. something simple w/o going full-blown jsr 168). We envisioned the following. The application would: a) "know about" the various tiles on the page by parsing tiles-definitions.xml (the values of the "name" attribute) b) offer UI to allow administrators to control "what goes where"..."put this piece of content in the left_center", put this forum teaser in the bottom right. (We would store in our app database "this module goes in this tile") c) use a "get content" servlet would process the tile and populate it with the html. In this example, the servlet would look up what should appear on the 'center_section': <put name="center_section" direct="true" path="/servlet/getcontent"/> If this isn't an option, I thought another mechanism would be to extend/write another definitions factory and 'define/redefine' our tile definition on-the-fly using data from our application. The tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf on Cedric Dumoulin's site says: >Another option is to write a factory that reads definitions from other >sources, like a DB. I hope Tiles will provide such a factory soon. Did anyone write such a factory? I welcome any suggestions and criticism, constructive or otherwise! Bill m --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
