Keith, check out............... http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/ .............the new examples that come with it solve some related problem.
> Hi > > Struts provides us with a nice MVC architecture, where: > - a user's click maps to an Action > - based on the results, the user is forwarded to the view > > <template:insert template="news.jsp"/> > > In news.jsp we can access the database and retrieve the news for display. > This breaks the MVC pattern, since the view is accessing the model. > Alternatively, we have have this in the template.jsp: > <template:insert template="news.do"/> ---Every tile is associated with a controller (make sure you check out the struts-config.xml that comes with tiles distrib) --- Controller for each tile prepares the data required for each tile (eliminating the need for your - news.jsp we can access the database and retrieve the news for display) ---then in your template news.jsp you can import the data with tiles specific tags like <tiles:importAttribute name="catalog" /> <tiles:importAttribute name="userItems" /> > Here's an example: > (1) User clicks on viewUserDetail.do > (2) ViewDetialAction forwards to user.jsp > (3) In template.jsp (used by user.jsp), news.do invokes NewsAction, and it > forwards to news.jsp > > Basically, I want to call > > <template:insert template="news.do"/> > > in the JSP. Has anyone done something like this? > > Keith > > > -- > 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]>
