Re: Tiles Question:Diff between jsp and XML tiles definations...

[Cedric Dumoulin]

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Hi Cedric,
Thanks for the reply once again..:-))
But I still have one question.
So does it mean that using the jsp approach is a bit inefficient?
 Yes, unless you provide a mechanism to avoid the reload of definition

But is the the only disadvantage?

 No, Definition are located in jsp pages instead of a central file, and 
you can't easily use inheritance.

My main concern is can I use all the features of tiles (Mainly defination Inheritance etc.)with the jsp approach?

 Inheritance is not fully implemented whith def in jsp.

I am trying to avoid the use of action component servlet as We already have extended ActionServlet in our project.And I am not sure if we Instead inherit ActionComponentServlet will it affect any thing else..

 Try to inherit from the TilesActionComponentServlet. It overload few 
methods, so it should not interfere with your class.

  Cedric

regards,
Shirish
-----Original Message-----
From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:19 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Tiles Question:Diff between jsp and XML tiles
definations...


 There is some differences:

   * Xml definitions are store in a factory; they can be inserted with
     <insert name="aDefinition"; they are declared in a centralized
     file, they can be declared using inheritance; they can be used in
     a struts <forward ...> tag; they need the initialization of the
     factory (done by the plugin)
   * jsp definition are stored in one of the jsp context. They are
     inserted with <insert beanName="aBeanId">; they don't need the
     factory; they can't be used as struts <forward ...>; they are
     created each time the <tiles:definition ..> tag is encountered.
 Hope this help,

  Cedric

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Hi All,
I am new to tiles and experimenting with it a bit to see if our struts 1.0 template 
based application can be ported to Tiles easily...
I have got some sample pages from our application working using tiles definations But the definations are defined in a jsp file.

So my question is whats the difference between Using an xml file for defination and using a jsp file?If I am using jsp definations, Do i stil need to initialise the Defination factory?

If I go the jsp way, Will I be still able to use all features of tiles ?because I think to use tiles I need to use ActionComponentServlet(Struts 1.0) instead of ActionServlet...And the ActionComponentServlet modifies the forward behaviour for use with tiles...So does it mean that whether I use xml definations or not,I need to use ActionCOmponentServlet...Is it true?

Any help is appreciated...

regards,
Shirish
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