Hi
A Tiles definition is an exact mapping to a view, so you will need to have a
definition for each view. The same goes if you would want to use Clay (which
I recommend over Tiles). This is one of the nice features of these two
frameworks (?): Component inheritance. This is something that for instance
Facelets lacks.
So create a master definition (Template), and then override that definition
for each of your views, only changing the part that changes.
<definition name="site.mainLayout" path="/jsp/mtemplate1.jsp">
<put name="topp" value="/jsp/topp.jsp" />
<put name="menu" value="site.menu.top" />
<put name="submenu" value="site.menu.main" />
<put name="helpmenu" value="site.menu.right" />
<put name="content" value="${content}" />
<put name="footer" value="/jsp/footer.jsp" />
<put name="messages" value="/jsp/messages.jsp" />
</definition>
For page1
<definition name="site.mainLayout" path="/jsp/mtemplate1.jsp">
<put name="content" value="/jsp/page1.jsp" />
</definition>
For page2
<definition name="site.mainLayout" path="/jsp/mtemplate1.jsp">
<put name="content" value="/jsp/page2.jsp" />
</definition>
And so on - Only overrding what differs from you master layout(s) (Which you
may have several of)
Hermod
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Sendt: 13. februar 2007 03:00
Til: [email protected]
Emne: RE: tiles integration error
Thanks Dick!
I finally got it to work!
Just one more architecture question. (I think this will show my tiles
ignorance though ;-)
Do I generate a definition for every combination of tiles? So let's say
I want to link to my dashboard and afterwards to my profile page. The
only thing that makes these two pages different is their
<put name="content" value="/dashboard.jsp"/>
Or
<put name="content" value="/profile.jsp"/>
Or is there a way to tell tiles to browse to my definition and populate
the content with a specific tile in the link to the definition?
I already like tiles if I would have to make a definition for each view.
I would like to marry it if it would allow me the second option.
Thank you,
Joost
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From: Dick Starr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:03 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: tiles integration error
<%-- starraLayout.jsp
2007-01-11 RJS. New.
--%>
<%@ include file="/jspf/common/taglibs.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="/jspf/common/messages.jsp" %>
<%-- Layout Tiles
This layout create a html page with <header> and <body> tags. It render
a header, left menu, body and footer tile.
@param title String use in page title
@param header: Header tile (jsp url or definition name)
@param menuBar: Menu Bar
@param body: Body
@param footer: Footer
--%>
<f:view>
<html>
<head>
<link href="<h:outputText
value="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}"/><h:outputText
value="#{msg['style.base']}"/>"
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"/>
<title><tiles:attribute flush="false" name="title"/></title>
</head>
<body background="<h:outputText
value="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}"/><h:outputText
value="#{msg['img.background.app']}"/>"/>
<table border="0" cellspacing="5" width="100%" >
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><tiles:attribute flush="false" name="header"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="13%">
<tiles:attribute flush="false" name="menuBar"/>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<tiles:attribute flush="false" name="body"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2">
<tiles:attribute flush="false" name="info"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2">
<tiles:attribute flush="false" name="footer"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</f:view>
Here you are. I am using Tiles from "shale-framework-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT/lib"
(Shale 20070207).
Dick
