Hi,
I checked in some JSP templates that can be used as an alternative to the
ecs Layouts/Navigations. Regard this as an proposal, I know that JSPs are
not the preferred apache templating system and Raphael is working on a
Velocity based solution, however I think there might be people that will
want to use JSPs.
In short: We haven't discussed this on the list before, I just added it to
the CVS so that you can test it easily. If you don't like it at all, I'll
revmove the changes of course.
What I did:
* I added a JetspeedJspService (basically that's the same as the
TurbineJspService, however I had some problems with how the template pathes
were used. I asked the author of the TurbineJspService to change it and if
he does, we can go back to the "standard" TurbineJspService.)
The JspService has some supporting java beans that can be called from
within a Jsp
* I added a JetspedJspLayout
* I added a templat/jsp directory to the content directory, containing a
layout and navigation JSPs
* I added a few lines in the TurbineResources.properties (as comments)
How to use it:
0. get the new code
1. copy the content/template directoy to the content of you tomcat installation
2. change/enable following keys in your TurbineResources.properties:
layout.default=JetspeedJspLayout
page.default=JspPage
services.JspService.classname=org.apache.jetspeed.turbine.services.jsp.JetspeedJspService
services.JspService.templates=/content/templates/jsp
services.JspService.default.layout=/default.jsp
services.TurbineTemplateService.default.navigation=BaseJspNavigation
services.TurbineTemplateService.default.screen=BaseJspScreen
Consequences:
The ecs layout and navigations are replaced by respective JSP pages. The
screen is still the same, i.e. for now the screen still does ecs based
aggregation.
We should get rid of the ecs screen sometime as well, but i think the
templates are already an improvement: HTML templates can be modified easily
without changing code. So it's much easier for an admin/web designer to
modify the appearance of the portal. Also, we can get rid of quite a few
keys in the property files, things like logo, welcome message, etc. are set
directly in the templates.
Of course, there are other popular templating systems (webmacro, velocity)
and we should provide templates for more than one.
So please try it and tell me what you think about it. I hope it is ok that
I just added the files to CVS - if you don't enable it in TR.P, there
won't be any effect on the other code.
ingo.
BTW, the code is probably not the best style, I didn't have much time for it...
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