Wendy, the source code for Struts-Atlanta does some of what (I think) you are wanting to do.
Feel free to download it from either http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta/downloads (as a zip) or http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/struts/struts-atlanta/ (cvs view) James Mitchell Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:26 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: [tiles] relative paths for the .jsp files > > > > Given the following structure: > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/three.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/four.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/jsp/one.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/jsp/two.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/jsp/header.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/jsp/footer.jsp > /path/to/tomcat/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/jsp/menu.jsp > > When I use classicLayout, all of the "put" calls seem to be > relative to the > location of the layout file: > > <tiles:insert page="WEB-INF/jsp/classicLayout.jsp" flush="true"> > <tiles:put name="title" value="My first page" /> > <%-- these are relative to the location of the layout, > so it's looking in WEB-INF/jsp/ --%> > <tiles:put name="menu" value="menu.jsp" /> > <tiles:put name="body" value="one.jsp" /> > <tiles:put name="header" value="two.jsp" /> > <%-- must back up out of WEB-INF to get other files --%> > <tiles:put name="footer" value="../../four.jsp" /> > </tiles:insert> > > However, for vboxLayout, this is not the case: > > <tiles:insert page="WEB-INF\jsp\vboxLayout.jsp" flush="true" > > <tiles:putList name="list" > > <%-- must specify path relative to the webapp root --%> > <tiles:add value="WEB-INF\jsp\header.jsp" /> > <tiles:add value="WEB-INF\jsp\aBody.jsp" /> > <tiles:add value="three.jsp" /> > <tiles:add value="four.jsp" /> > <tiles:add value="WEB-INF\jsp\footer.jsp" /> > </tiles:putList> > </tiles:insert> > > Also I just noticed that vboxLayout only works with the '\' > separator. If I > switch to '/' it can't seem to find any of the files. :( This is running > under Tomcat 4.1.14 and the Struts nightly build from the 18th. > > If '/' does not work on Windows, when I move this to HP-UX I suspect that > '\' will stop working. > > Is this the expected behavior? I found it a little confusing as a tiles > newbie. > > -- > Wendy Smoak > Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. > Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
