Hi Brian,
Check the Tiles contribution. Tiles allow to define regions/screens/templates
in a centralized file, and let an action forward to the region id.
For now, if you change the centralized file, you have to restart your webapps.
This can be solved by writing an administration page reloading explicitly the
definition file.
Tiles are integrated with Struts as a contribution (for now, only in Struts
source, soon in binary distribution). You can download Tiles binary from
original Tiles site.
Hope this help,
Cedric
Tiles sites :
http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/
(mirror) : http://www.geocities.com/cedricdumoulin/tiles/
"Brian K. Buckley" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using struts along with the template tags from David Geary's Advanced
> JavaServer Pages book.
>
> As described in the book, I have defined all my pages in a single definition
> file (for example, regionDefinitions.jsp shown below), and in order to use
> the pages, I have created 2-line jsp files for each id in the definition
> file, each of which calls region:render for the id (example below).
>
> Is there a way in struts to avoid creating all these little helper jsp
> files? It would be cleaner to be able to just name ids in the actions and
> forwards of the struts-config.xml file rather than having to name jsp files.
>
> Besides being bothersome, changes to the basic template file do not "take"
> automatically - it is necessary to "touch" each helper jsp file before
> Tomcat knows to recompile pages.
>
> Any suggestions or comments?
>
> - Brian
>
> --------------
> regionDefinitions.jsp------------------------------------------------------
>
> <region:define id='myfirstpage' scope='request' template='xxx.jsp'>
> <region:put .../>
> <region:put .../>
> </region:define>
>
> <region:define id='my2ndpage' ...>
> ...
> </region:define>
>
> <region:define id='my3rdpage' ...>
> ...
> </region:define>
>
> etc...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
>
> --------------
> myfirstPage.jsp------------------------------------------------------
> <% @ include file="regionDefinitions.jsp %>
> <% region:render region='myfirstpage'/>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
>
> --------------
> mysecondPage.jsp------------------------------------------------------
> <% @ include file="regionDefinitions.jsp %>
> <% region:render region='my2ndpage'/>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
>
> --------------
> my3rdPage.jsp------------------------------------------------------
> <% @ include file="regionDefinitions.jsp %>
> <% region:render region='my3rdpage'/>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
>
> etc...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
