On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, John Patterson wrote: > 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.
You can do the same thing with Sitemesh. > 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? Yeah, you have. There's nothing that prevents the decorator from using dynamic information. > Are there plans to add Tiles like functionality to the "Componentisation" > tags? No, because there's not a lot of need, at least that I know of. > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] J2EE Editor - Java Developer's Journal [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
