It is relatively simple to implement (and maintain) a navigation breadcrumb menu using Tiles, which shows the position of your page in the heirarchy. It is basic, so I'm not sure if it could fulfil what you describe as 'knowing its relationship to the rest of the pages' or an 'API to know the current page's parent siblings & children'.
Perhaps a couple of examples to show what you mean would help.
Adam
On 03/17/2004 04:45 AM Andrew Freeman wrote:
I have been learning about a web portal tool called BroadVision Portal. One of the nice things that it provides "out of the box" are breadcrumbs. It allows you to define a hierarchical navigation system where each level of the hierarchy can have a sub-navigation element and/or one or more "content" items. You can compare this concept to a file system. Every webpage/link knows its relationship to the rest of the pages/links. This means that there is an API to know the current page's/link's parent, siblings, and children. Microsoft's Whidbey release of ASP.NET will provide an API for this. The bottom line is that having such a feature in Struts would make it easy to build things like breadcrumbs.
Does anyone have any idea of what it would take to build a "site navigation" type concept into Struts?
thanks, Andy
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