I've used Struts Tiles quite a bit and am pretty new to Turbine. I really like Velocity and prefer it over JSP any day, but I can't seam to get a handle on the Turbine Velocity Template engine. I'm sure it would be easier if I didn't use Tiles first.
One of the things that was very easy in Tiles is to replace a tile at runtime, something I'm struggling with using Turbine's Template engine. For example let's say I had a layout template in Tiles, and in that template was a placeholder for another Tile that represents Tabs that go across the top of my page. At runtime, I could replace the one set of tabs with a different set (depending on what tab I want to be selected). What is even nicer with Tiles is I could create named templates like "HomeTemplate" or "ContactTemplate" which extended "BaseTemplate" that overrode the Tabs placeholder. This can even be done declaratively in an XML file. The Navigation template's in Turbine confuse me, because there doesn't seem to be a way to replace them at runtime, such as I did in Tiles for my page's tabs. I think the differentiating factor is that Tiles allowed for inheritance and Turbine Templates seemingly do not. Could someone with knowledge of Tiles and Turbine tell me what they understand the difference is, or how can accomplish what I want (which is to switch Tabs at runtime)? Thanks, - Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
