I'm evaluating a possible Struts-Tiles solution but require clarification to the Tiles approach to page composition.
My requirement is that a potential web user could be categorised as an individual, a small business, a corporate, etc. All categories of users have access to the same pages but the content may be different for each category of user. The differences could be as small as a single content area or it could be a different template with differing areas. >From initial appearances Tiles assumes that the composition is static with respect to specifying the individual content areas. A poor solution would be to generate lots of different Tiles defs for all combinations and employ complicated routing to each. Likewise, generating a virtual site for each category of user leads to similar complications and duplication. We have a propriatary, non-Struts/Tiles soluton (But of a remarkably similar approach) which has addressed all of these problems though we need to ensure that any other solution will have similar functionality to what we have already. So, my questions are: o Is this type of functionality currently available? o Has anyone thought of this before and is there a well known solution? o Is there any plan to extend Tiles to offer conditional composition? Regards Richard Tomlinson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
