Tiles is indeed more developed. The template library was a relatively early contribution to Struts. Since it stabilised, it has undergone little change. In the meantime, Tiles came along as an add-on to Struts, providing backwards compatibility with the template library, but also offering significantly more functionality. Over time, Tiles was moved to the contrib area of Struts, and more recently, into the Struts core.
Meanwhile, David Geary, who was the original author of the template library, went on to develop the Regions library, which he describes in his book, "Advanced JavaServer Pages". At one point, there was some discussion of David and Cedric working together to combine the best of Regions and Tiles, but as far as I'm aware, nothing came of that. At this point, the template library is really only meaningful for backwards compatibility. Tiles is the focus, going forward. My understanding is that the degree of compatibility between the two is such that simply changing the taglib directive at the top of a JSP page to reference Tiles instead of template is all that is needed to switch over to Tiles. That being the case, it occurs to me that we should probably deprecate the template library in favour of Tiles in the 1.1 release, with a view to supporting only Tiles in future releases. (Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a history lesson. :) -- Martin Cooper > -----Original Message----- > From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: template status > > > What's the deal with the struts template library? I haven't > used it but it > seems to have many features that Tiles has. Tiles seems more > developed > however. Are there any plans for template? > > Dave > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
