I cannot get Click to work with JSP pages. I wanted to include a JSP page in
my Click app. Reason: We have a legacy code base heavily using JSP/Struts.
How about JSF pages? Can we include it in a Click app?
This thing is holding us back to use Click as all our existing codes are
using JSP/JSF/Facelets. Bottom line is I have to be able to include existing
JSP pages if we wanted to use Click.
Any suggestions or tutorials ? I read all I can find, and I know Click can
work with JSP, but my question is how can I make .htm including JSP pages.
Any tags like <ui:include>?
As Bob suggested you can use with Click JSPs too, without problems (in
fact JSPs should be "first class citizens" like Velocity files - those
with the *.htm extension).
In the case of JSPs however there's a fine distinction:
#1 "JSP Pages" - full blown Click Pages (backed by Java files - using
the automapping feature - or the manual mapping in click.xml), so
similar to e.g. /admin/customer-edit.htm described over the entire
documentation (but in your case it will be /admin/customer-edit.jsp)
#2 "JSP Files" - ordinary JSP files that have for Click no meaning -
these can be your legacy code that you can include or forward or
redirect to, until you are able to completely migrate to Click.
To have such "JSP files", you need to exclude them from the Click
mapping. See "2.3.2 Automapping Excludes" paragraph from:
http://incubator.apache.org/click/docs/configuration.html
So you need to copy your legacy code in a Click webapplication, and
exclude it from the automapping e.g. if you place all your legacy JSPs
in /legacy/*, than in click.xml you would have:
---------------------
<click-app>
<pages package="com.mycorp.page">
<excludes pattern="/legacy/*"/>
</pages>
</click-app>
----------------------
Now in your border-template.jsp, or any Click "JSP Page" (e.g.
/adminm/customer-edit.jsp), you can include those legacy jsp file
without problems, e.g.
<jsp:include page="/legacy/footer.jsp" flush="true" />
Adrian.
