Thanks for the info Martin. I wanted to make sure I was pointing people in the right direction. This came up on the user list today and I recommended using Tiles. I agree with deprecating the template library, that's part of the reason I asked :-). It's confusing when there are 2 libraries that do the same basic thing.
Dave >From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Struts Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: template status >Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:38:19 -0700 > >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]> _________________________________________________________________ Internet access plans that fit your lifestyle -- join MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
