Sounds like a job for the Struts Wiki!
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsProjectPages
Frank Rizzo wrote:
Why should we use tiles as opposed to anything else? I am told that this question comes often, so the list below has been compiled from this mailing list archive and other
If you can add to the list of reasons why someone might want to use Tiles on their
project, please visit http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?StrutsSellMeOnTiles
Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sounds like a job for the Struts Wiki!
: Sell me on tiles
Tiles is a major pita to set up but its amazing how much time
it saves down
the road.
I think its awesome just from the fact that u dont need to worry about
putting all the decorations on a page (nav bar/header/footer
etc) and only
need to worry about the meat and potatoes
The major selling point of tiles is that you can encapsulate, and reuse,
page layouts, much as you can reuse layout managers in classic UI
frameworks such as Struts. Beyond that, tiles have many other features
that will save you a great deal of time and effort, such as extending an
existing
I appreciate you've had lots of replies already - but tiles was the killer
feature for us in selecting struts. Please don't misunderstand that struts
isn't great anyway - we love it - but the addition of tiles has made
developing complex websites a breeze.
There is a very outdated first-cut of
I appreciate you've had lots of replies already - but tiles
was the killer feature for us in selecting struts. Please don't
misunderstand that struts isn't great anyway - we love it - but
the addition of tiles has made developing complex websites a
breeze.
There is a very outdated
justification
for why struts was chosen as the framework.
H.
-Original Message-
From: James Childers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 15:41
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: Sell me on tiles
I appreciate you've had lots of replies already - but tiles
I can't get the site to display at all, and i've tried both IE and Mozilla.
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:20 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Choice of colours
strangely but again will be fine in production. IE and Moz are fine if you
can connect!
H.
-Original Message-
From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 16:22
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
I can't get the site to display
on tiles
I can't get the site to display at all, and i've tried both IE and Mozilla.
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:20 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Choice of colours
: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Why do you need special stuff for Opera? Opera suppports the w3c standards
more closely than the other browsers.
David
From: Hue Holleran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply
in production.
H.
-Original Message-
From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Why do you need special stuff for Opera? Opera suppports the w3c standards
more closely than the other browsers.
David
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Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
If it looks ok in Opera, then it will look ok in the other browsers. Maybe
you should test in Opera first ;-).
David
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Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:31:38 -
;- Actually Opera do supply it as a deb for Linux so we might well give
it a try - as all development happens on Debian workstations. I guess it's
not supplied as part of Debs as it's
-Original Message-
From: Hue Holleran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:32 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Sell me on tiles
I'm pretty sure the solution is to use another table outside of this one and
have yet another nested table
What would you use instead? I like it because of the central xml
configuration. The only tiles tag I use is tiles:insert to place the
components in the proper place and leave the rest up to the xml config.
file. Each JSP you write can be reused in any place you need that
particular view and
Tiles is a major pita to set up but its amazing how much time it saves down
the road.
I think its awesome just from the fact that u dont need to worry about
putting all the decorations on a page (nav bar/header/footer etc) and only
need to worry about the meat and potatoes part.
Aside from using
Look through the examples in the tiles-documentation WAR and see what you
can do with it. I don't think I could live with out. I like having
separate tiles for my header, menubar, footer, etc. I also like to make
reusable components out of things I use in several JSPs. For example, if
you have
Tiles is a major pita to set up but its amazing how much time
it saves down
the road.
I think its awesome just from the fact that u dont need to worry about
putting all the decorations on a page (nav bar/header/footer
etc) and only
need to worry about the meat and potatoes part.
Aside
We migrated from using %@include ... to tiles last year.
Development for is on an order of magnitude easier for our graphics
designer. Instead of ugly header.jsp/footer.jsp type logic, you have
template.jsp with body.jsp/sidebar.jsp stuff like that. No need from
broken html in include files any
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