I forgot to include what you also need in faces-config as follows:
<!-- Tiles Integration -->
<application>
<view-handler>
org.apache.shale.tiles.TilesViewHandler
</view-handler>
</application>
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Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Starr
Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 2:52 PM
To: user@shale.apache.org
Cc:
Subject: RE: new to shale tiles
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 7:42 AM
To: user@shale.apache.org
Cc:
Subject: new to shale tiles
is there a good example of how to implement tiles in shale and all the steps
neccessary to do so?
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Jonathan:
Not that I was able to find. Further, most web information refers to Struts
Tiles, which will lead you astray. However, I and other posters are using
stand-alone Tiles successfully.
I'll assume you have some experience with Struts Tiles. Here is what I did to
get stand-alone Tiles working with Shale:
(1) Get on the latest Shale release (very important). I am using the 10/4/06
release. You will need the shale-tiles and the tiles-core jars from the Shale
release.
(2) In your web.xml create the following:
<!-- Tiles -->
<context-param>
<param-name>definitions-config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.apache.tiles.listener.TilesListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
(3) Setup your tiles definitions. Here are some samples from my tiles.xml:
<!-- Site master definition -->
<definition name="/siteMainLayout"
path="/tiles/layouts/starraLayout.jsp">
<put name="title" value="/tiles/common/title.jsp"/>
<put name="header" value="/tiles/common/header.jsp"/>
<put name="menuBar" value="/tiles/common/menuBar.jsp"/>
<put name="body" value=""/>
<put name="footer" value="/tiles/common/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<!-- System -->
<definition name="/systemLogoff"
extends="/siteMainLayout">
<put name="body"
type="template"
value="/jsp/system/logoff.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="/systemLogon"
extends="/siteMainLayout">
<put name="body"
type="template"
value="/jsp/system/logon.jsp"/>
</definition>
This is my title.jsp, used in /siteMainLayout
<%-- title.jsp
2006-09-12 RJS. New.
--%>
<%@ include file="/jspf/common/taglibs.jspf" %>
<%@ include file="/jspf/common/messages.jspf" %>
<h:panelGroup>
<h:outputText value="#{msg['app.title']}"/>
</h:panelGroup>
(4) Have your navigation rules point to your tiles, like so:
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/systemLogoff.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>cancel</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/menuHome</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/systemLogon</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/systemLogon.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/menuHome</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
(5) Make your index.jsp forward to a tile like so:
<jsp:forward page="systemLogon.faces"/>
(6) The tiles definitions body templates refer to jsp's that only contain Shale
components.
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Dick
