That could be done I suppose, as long as we don't think there's much room for 
confusion since the two behaviors would be pretty different (include vs 
substitute).

Regards
Scott

On 16/02/2011, at 6:05 PM, Adrian Crum <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Why not add the path attribute to the existing <include> element?
> 
> -Adrian
> 
> On 2/15/2011 2:40 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
>> I regularly run into a situation where I need a pre-processor event to run 
>> only for a sub-set of a webapp's requests, usually within a particular group 
>> of screens (an example might be that you want to check that a specific 
>> session attribute or request parameter is set before allowing access to that 
>> set of requests).  Currently you can only run an event for either a single 
>> request (request-map.event) or for every request (preprocessor.event) within 
>> a webapp, there isn't really any in-between.
>> 
>> I threw together a quick PoC this morning for a sub-controller 
>> implementation that would allow a webapp to have multiple controllers.  
>> Basically you have your regular controller at /control/ but within the 
>> controller.xml you can define sub-controllers and the path that it should 
>> use:
>> Main controller.xml
>> <sub-controller 
>> location="component://example/webapp/example/WEB-INF/sub-controller.xml" 
>> path="sub"/>
>> now every request to /control/sub/* will use the sub-controller.xml instead 
>> of the main controller and is handled in exactly the same way as the main 
>> controller would be.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>> 
>> HotWax Media
>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>> 

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