Troy,
Why have two pages for each page that uses templates rather than collapse
them into a single page with the content embedded like this:
<template:put name="content" direct="true">
content here
</template:put>
By having two pages, don't you end up with one page having the page title,
and the other with the content as well as possibly other things separated?
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "troy hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Templates: a design question
> The approach I use (and I believe it is a common approach) is to have two
> jsp pages for each page on my site that is going to use templates. For
> example, if I have an ecommerce site it is likely I will have a shopping
> cart page, a search page and a search results pages... For this example,
the
> set of jsp pages would be as follows:
>
> MainLayout.jsp - the main template layout page.
> ShopCart_content.jsp - the actual content of the shopping card page.
> ShopCart.jsp - the shopping cart page that references MainLayout.jsp and
> tells it to use ShopCart_content.jsp...
> Search_content.jsp - the actual content of the search page.
> Search.jsp - the search page that references MainLayout.jsp and tells it
to
> use Search_content.jsp...
> SearchResults_content.jsp - the actual content of the search results page.
> SearchResults.jsp - the search results page that references MainLayout.jsp
> and tells it to use SearchResults_content.jsp...
>
> This way your action mappings reference ShopCart.jsp, Search.jsp, and
> SearchResults.jsp...
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Troy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oleg Bondarenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:57 AM
> Subject: Templates: a design question
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am very new to Struts and I find it interesting. I like the action
mapping
> and also templates, but I have difficulties using them together.
>
> E.g. I have a central page, say Main.jsp that has a template which
contains
> constant header and footer and a variable content part. This content part
(a
> jsp) must be determined at the run-time. Because of the template I have to
> always send back to the user the Main.jsp. How to use action mapping then?
>
> One possible solution would be the following. The action handler stores
the
> variable content part as a session attribute and always returns the global
> mapping "main" (which is mapped to the Main.jsp). The Main.jsp retrieves
the
> central variable part from the session and pass it to the template.
>
> This works, but I have a feeling that I am not correctly using the Struts.
> Any input from experts would be highly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Oleg Bondarenko
>
>
>
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