thanks ted, Where can I get info. on tiles?
Sanjay --- Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What Steve said, and > > Sanjay Choudhary wrote: > > 2. Except for a HTML designer, most of the > programmers > > are involved with backend programming. They have > done > > very little HTML work. I was wondering if we will > be > > able to create JSP's using Struts HTML tags and > other > > tag libraries if a form is defined using pure > HTML. > > If the Java Engineers will also be doing alot of the > HTML coding, I'd > recommend looking at Tiles early in the project. > This lets you treat > blocks of markup (both template and dynamic) like > methods in a program. > This can severely reduce the amount of markup the > engineers actually > have to touch. Instead they incorporate it by > reference, much like > calling a block of methods. > > So, with tiles an engineer might create a new Result > page by adding this > to a configuration file > > <definition name=".item.Result" extends=".Result"> > <put name="title" value="New Item Result" > /> > <put name="content" > value="/pages/item/NewResult.jsp" /> > </definition> > > and then just writing the NewResult.jsp segment that > exposes the result > set > > (simplified from production, but this would work) > > <logic:notEqual name="RESULT" property="size" > value="0"> > <TR><TD><TABLE width="100%"> > <TR class="greybg"> > <TH>item</TH> > <TH>name</TH> > <TH>category</TH> > <TH>donor</TH> > <TH>script</TH> > <TH>type</TH> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD><bean:write name="row" property="item"/></TD> > <TD><bean:write name="row" property="name"/></TD> > <TD><bean:write name="row" > property="category"/></TD> > <TD align="right"><bean:write name="row" > property="donor"/></TD> > <TD><bean:write name="row" property="script"/></TD> > <TD><bean:write name="row" > property="itemType"/></TD> > </TR> > </logic:iterate> > </TABLE></TD><TR> > </logic:notEqual> > > The rest of the page, headers, footers, menus, even > control buttons, can > all be inherited from a layout that the HTML dude > has crafted. > > Though, at the top, even that looks like a method: > > <html:html> > <tiles:useAttribute name="title" scope="request"/> > <tiles:get name="base"/> > <tiles:get name="header"/> > <tiles:get name="heading"/> > <tiles:get name="messages" /> > <TR><TD width="100%"> > <tiles:get name="caption"/> > </TD></TR> > <tiles:get name="content"/> <-- THIS IS THE PART THE > ENGINEER WRITES > <tiles:get name="back"/> > <tiles:get name="footer"/> > </html:html> > > Of course, my production version also includes > stylesheets so the HTML > designer can control that too, and some internal > links so users can > drill down, but you get the idea. > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > -- Java Web Development with Struts. > -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. > -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
