Believe me there are many ways to do it and I am not the best but I like to treat any JSP defined in the tiles def xml and any JSPs that are like templates as in classic_layout.jsp which assembles all of the other JSPs as the equivalent of an abstract class and I don't forward to any of those. I will extend (in the tiles def xml file) the doc.classicLayout, which uses classic_layout.jsp to assemble the look of the page, and those extended defs are what I forward to. So Tiles is doing all my assembly.
"doc.umHome" extends doc.classicLayout and then I forward to doc.umHome if that is where I want to go. In posts from yesterday or the day before I posted exactly how I do it for a concrete example. -----Original Message----- From: Davidson, Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:48 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Newbie Question: Tiles and html:link how to make it work. Shane, You have been most helpful and correct. Please bear with me for one more moment. When I do my links I link to a forward and not directly to a JSP. I agree that the best way to handle the "is logged in" question is by sub classing the ActionServlet (Ted Husted's Book has a nice example of this). What I have working is this: I create a link to a forward, the forward is mapped to a JSP, within the JSP is a tiles include definition. If I have an action the forward of the action mapping is taking the tiles definition and working correctly. Is this the correct way of handling this? Thanks Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Bailey, Shane C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:19 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Newbie Question: Tiles and html:link how to make it work. Like I said. Don't link to any JSPs from a JSP. So you need to look into things a little more or you will have problems in the long run. If you really don't need to do any type of preparation for the display of a JSP (i.e. nothing put in the request,session,etc. for the JSP to pull out) then use: <action path="/home" parameter="doc.welcome" type="org.apache.struts.action.ForwardAction" scope="request"> </action> Most of the time you will want to go to a real action and do something. Especially a check for login (already authenticated). You shouldn't do it in every JSP (that's what it sounds like you are doing). I suggest to subclass the ActionServlet to do a login check. I hope this helps but you really should learn more before doing your implementation of struts. I feel I have the basics of struts decently but learn something all the time on this forum. -----Original Message----- From: Davidson, Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:45 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Newbie Question: Tiles and html:link how to make it work. Thanks for the quick response!!!!! Lets say I have a "menu item" that I want to use to call another jsp page. This new jsp page is defined as a new tile. More detail: Lets say I have a welcome page (which is defined in tiles-defs.xml). In the header.jsp I look to see if the user is logged in. If they are logged in I display a greeting in the header. If they are not logged in I print "Please logon" in the menu.jsp and I when they click on that I would like to jump to the logon page which is defined in the tiles-defs.xml. The logon page has a different menu.jsp and body.jsp defined. Thanks Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Bailey, Shane C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:25 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Newbie Question: Tiles and html:link how to make it work. Your forward path can be a Tiles Def in the struts-config. You don't want to ever link directly to a Def (or JSP) so it sounds like you are fine. Need more detail otherwise. -----Original Message----- From: Davidson, Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:22 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Newbie Question: Tiles and html:link how to make it work. I am new to Struts and Tiles and am trying to make it work. I have written a simple web site that uses the <html:link forward="some forward name" ... and this works well. The "some forward name" is currently defined in the <global forwards> section of the struts-config.xml I have looked at the documentation on line and it is a little shy on this. I also have Ted Husted's book which is really great but I am still having a problem. Can anyone get me some guidance here? Thanks Glenn Davidson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
