Scott,
> I am trying to call a jsp when the user clicks a
> button. The button is in a form and the
> ACTION="test.jsp". The jsp file is coming up
> correctly, however the header, footer, and left nav
> disappear and only the html from the jsp file is being
> displayed. I want the header, footer, and left nav to
> remain and the html from the jsp be displayed in the
> middle. What do you think I am doing wrong? Should I
> be calling a psml from the ACTION instead of a jsp
> file?
I'm quite newbie myself, but maybe I can give you a hint.. (This
involves version 1.3a2)
You shouldn't try to forward request directly to JSP. Jetspeed is built
on Turbine and you should get familiar with Turbine basic functions. One
of them is the way Turbine constructs screen displayed to user.
First, there's RunData. Form data is automatically parsed to RunData.
Secondly, When Turbine gets request, it is forwarded to an action which
is given as parameter in request. RunData also includes methods to tell
Turbine where to forward response. Unfortunately I don't have Turbine
API at hand at the moment, so I can't give you accurate method names.
If you look at the Turbine, view is constructed from following elements:
page
layout
screen
navigation
Page has an layout which determines where different parts of screen is.
Navigations are elements that re.occur on many pages, the ones you are
currently missing for example. Screen is the content.
Jetspeed comes with one layoyt, default.jsp. It's located in
/WEB-INF/templates/jsp/layouts/html/default.jsp. Under
/WEB-INF/templates/jsp are also all other Jetspeed 'screenparts'
Page is handled my Jetspeed in Jetspeed.. What a stupid sentence.. :)
(it's Java-class, not JSP-file).
In your case you should set screen (RunData.set..) to JSP you wanted and
turbine should do the rest.
There's more information about Turbine at http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/fsd.html
It all may seem quite complicated when you are just trying to get
something simple to work, but keep digging! In the end it's allways good
to understand truly what's happening, rather than just get something to
work somehow.. (I know, that's this job quite often is .. but still :))
Have a nice day!
/kimmo
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