This makes the template impossible to reuse in another page that requires different navigation or other areas of the page to contain different components. The problem is due to the lack of separation between the template and the specification of what should be placed in the template.
With Tiles multiple components (or values) to be placed into a template can be defined in an XML file or in a jsp page. This allows complex pages to be composed by specifying what components you want and in what order. With Sitemesh only one component may be placed into the template which is defined by the request URL. The template must know what pieces to put the in the placeholders (ie title, body). This limits potential reuse. Or have I missed something about Sitemesh? Are there plans to add Tiles like functionality to the "Componentisation" tags? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Webwork with Tiles > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:56:21 +0100, John Patterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking into using Webwork for an upcoming web project. In the past > > I have used Struts with the Tiles extension which I really liked for its > > page layout abilities. It seems that with Webwork most people are using > > Sitemesh to do something similar. From what I can tell Sitemesh allows > > you to > > decorate a page with headers and footers etc. but can not do dynamic page > > composition. Is this correct? > > This isn't entirely correct. As you can specify which decorator to use in > sitemesh, you could have a Context menu mesh that does what you're > describing. However, this logic needs to be done directly in the jsp > rather than in an xml file like tiles. The sitemesh site, > http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/, has a good drawing of this. > > M > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. > www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
