Re: [Mav-user] how to migrate from Struts/ Tiles to Maverick

[Eelco Hillenius]

Hi again,   I am afraid that I was too early posting my question. I just looked at the docs and gave the source a *very* quick look, and did not see right away how to do struts-like things. Which is (in answer to you Jeff) the ability to compose a page of different parts (like a menu, sponsor bar, nav body, content body, etc.) WITHOUT doing it with jsp includes and the likes. In other words: to be able to change the layout of pages (e.g. adding an extra footer) with a minimum of work (idealy just changing a config file) BUT, now that I played around a bit with Maverick, I found that using multiple staged transforms does the trick very good indeed! As far as I can see now, you can do (allmost?) all the stuff that Tiles does for you (including changing whole layouts by just editing the configuration, as you can give parameters to transform stages), you just have to do it differently. And sure, Tiles (and Struts) gives you loads of tags to use, but XSLT (and jstl) makes up for that just fine.   I want to make the remark that I am not complaining about Struts/ Tiles, as I have used it on a bunch of projects with great results. I just think Maverick fits my taste of programming better (small - but clever - is beautifull); count me in as regular Maven user!   Finally... - I�ll confess that I�m not very familiar with Tiles � what are the cool things that you can do with Tiles that you can�t do by <jsp:include>ing other maverick (or struts, for that matter) commands? Ah.. life can be so much simpler than it looks at first sight. Damn! It's so simple I never really thought about nesting actions/ commands. Nice for doing portal stuff.   Well, I am feeling stupid enough for tonight, cheers,   .:Eelco   ----- Original Message ----- From: Schnitzer, Jeff To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: RE: [Mav-user] how to migrate from Struts/ Tiles to Maverick I�ll confess that I�m not very familiar with Tiles � what are the cool things that you can do with Tiles that you can�t do by <jsp:include>ing other maverick (or struts, for that matter) commands?   Personally I�ve been pretty happy just using the document transform � but it�s probably more limited than what you�re looking for.   Jeff   -----Original Message----- From: Eelco Hillenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mav-user] how to migrate from Struts/ Tiles to Maverick   Hi,   I just discovered Maverick today, and am very enthousiastic about it! At this moment we are using Struts (and Tiles) as our standard MVC tool. I would like to migrate the project I just started working to use Maverick right away. But... although I saw some old postings (like http://www.mail-archive.com/mav-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00333.html) discussing using composite views, it is not clear to me if someone actually came up with a solid 'final' idea how to tackle Tiles-like stuff. And as you might have guessed, we are using Tiles a lot, and I have to come up with very good arguments to convince the other guys (struts fans) to use something else than Struts/ Tiles. Actually, the configuration horror of Tiles is -the- reason that I would like to try Maverick, but that's the configuration only; I like the stuff you can do with it.    Did someone solve this (or has a good idea how to)?   .: Eelco