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----- Original Message -----
From: "Perez, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: struts-template and MVC
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Simms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:50 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: struts-template and MVC
> >
> > Sounds great....go for it Dan,
> > but try to get more info on the component specification.....little seems
> > to
> > be known about it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Miser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:34 PM
> > Subject: struts-template and MVC
> >
> >
> > > I originally wrote a Struts app that acted much like the
struts-example.
> > I
> > > feel it's a good separation of business logic from presentation, and
> > that
> > it
> > > follows the principles of MVC pretty well.
> > >
> > > Now the GUI developers are looking to integrate all of my very ugly
HTML
> > > pages into a common look and feel. I thought that the struts-template
> > > mechanism would be perfect. I can define my header, sidebar, footer
and
> > > dynamic content using this library.
> > >
> > > However, I noticed that the struts-template mechanism seems to be
based
> > on
> > > JSP pages, as opposed to actions. For example, the InsertTag class'
> > doEndTag
> > > method calls pageContext.include, so I can't simply specify:
> > > <template:put name='content'
> > content='/displayRoles.do?type=external'/>
> > >
> > > When I do that, I get an exception (which makes sense).
> > >
> > > I'd like the best of both worlds by providing the templating
capability
> > and
> > > still keeping my action-based web site. I was thinking of extending
the
> > > template:put tag to accept something like this:
> > > <template:put name='content'
action='/displayRoles.do?type=external'/>
> > >
> > > That way, the action class will execute and eventually forward itself
on
> > to
> > > the "success" page defined in struts-config.xml.
> > >
> > > So, did I miss something here? Is my analysis of this situation right?
> > Are
> > > people using struts-template in a capacity other than a
> > layout/presentation
> > > manager? Would the Components framework by Cedric solve this? Finally,
> > if
> > I
> > > got it all right, is there any interest in seeing this type of
> > extension?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time.
> > > --
> > > Dan Miser
> > > http://www.distribucon.com
> > >
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