I have created a working webapp that combines Shale 1.1.0 snapshot 20070409 and the tiles jar that came with this snapshot---tiles-core-2.0-r468346-SNAPSHOT.jar along with the supplied MyFaces 1.1.4 jars deployed on either Tomcat 5.5.17 or 6.0.10. The webapp is setup as follows (starting from the webapp root):
/index.jsp: <jsp:forward page="/tiles/layouts/loadLayout.faces"/> /tiles/layouts/loadLayout.jsp: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %> <tiles:insertDefinition name="/contentPage" flush="false"/> /WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd";> <tiles-definitions> <definition name="/mainLayout" template="/tiles/layouts/siteLayout.jsp"> <put name="htmlHeader" type="template" value="/tiles/htmlHeaderTile.jsp"/> <put name="header" type="template" value="/tiles/headerTile.jsp"/> <put name="rightSideBar" type="template" value="/tiles/rightSideBarTile.jsp"/> <put name="footer" type="template" value="/tiles/footerTile.jsp"/> </definition> <definition name="/contentPage" extends="/mainLayout"> <put name="content" type="template" value="/tiles/homeTile.jsp"/> </definition> </tiles-definitions> /tiles/homeTile.jsp: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk"; prefix="t" %> <h:outputText value= "<h1 align='center'>An OutputText Method to do a Content Tile!</h1> <div> <p> A paragraph of content. <p> A second paragraph of content. <p> A third paragraph of content. </div><br> " escape="false"/> <h:outputText value="Some JSF output text."/> <f:verbatim> <h1 align='center'>A Verbatim Method to do The Same Content Tile!</h1> <div> <p> Another paragraph of content. <p> Another second paragraph of content. <p> Another third paragraph of content. </div><br> </f:verbatim> <h:outputText value="Some more JSF output text."/> /tiles/layouts/siteLayout.jsp <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %> <html lang="en"> <f:view> <head> <tiles:attribute name="htmlHeader" flush="false"/> </head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="margin:0;padding:0"> <h:panelGrid columns="1" border="3"> <h:panelGroup> <tiles:attribute name="header" flush="false"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:panelGroup> <h:panelGrid columns="2" border="1"> <h:panelGroup> <tiles:attribute name="content" flush="false"/> </h:panelGroup> <h:panelGroup> <tiles:attribute name="rightSideBar" flush="false"/> </h:panelGroup> </h:panelGrid> </h:panelGroup> <h:panelGroup> <h:outputText value="Directly from sitelayout page: "/> <h:inputText/> </h:panelGroup> <h:panelGroup> <tiles:attribute name="footer" flush="false"/> </h:panelGroup> </h:panelGrid> </body> </f:view> </html> I am also using the tiles listener from web.xml as follows: <listener> <listener-class> org.apache.tiles.listener.TilesListener </listener-class> </listener> instead of the Shale tiles view handler (if this makes a difference) in faces-config.xml: <!-- application> <view-handler> org.apache.shale.tiles.TilesViewHandler </view-handler> </application --> which I could not get to work. I have omitted the other tiles, but they just have some simple text or JSF tags in them as dummy filler. This works as I expect it to with everything displayed in proper order, etc. However, this scheme forces me to create two pages for every unique content page I wish to display. For instance, if I want to display a different content page instead of the home tile, I might add a definition in tiles-defs.xml as follows: <definition name="/contactUsPage" extends="/mainLayout"> <put name="content" type="template" value="/tiles/contactUsTile.jsp"/> </definition> if I wanted to create new content containing contact information on a contact us page. But with the scheme that I have described above, in order to reference this new definition, I also have to create a new loadContactLayout.jsp page with a definition as follows: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %> <tiles:insertDefinition name="/contactUsPage" flush="false"/> Now for the Struts/Tiles portion: In Struts/Tiles I was able to simply declare a global forward and an action as follows: <forward name="Welcome" path="/Welcome.do"/> <action path="/Welcome" forward=".welcomePage"/> The action's forward leads to a similar pair of tiles definitions in a tiles-def.xml file as follows: <definition name=".mainLayout" path="/tiles/layouts/siteLayout.jsp"> <put name="htmlHeader" value="../htmlHeaderTile.jsp"/> <put name="header" value="../headerTile.jsp"/> <put name="rightSideBar" value="../rightSideBarTile.jsp"/> <put name="footer" value="../footerTile.jsp"/> </definition> <definition name=".welcomePage" extends=".mainLayout"> <put name="content" value="../homeTile.jsp"/> </definition> with a siteLayout.jsp page: ...snip... <html:html locale="true"> <head> <tiles:insert attribute="htmlHeader"/> </head> ...snip... I can then simply define a URL as http://.../mywebapp/Welcome.do and this causes the tiles context to be instantiated and then causes the appropriate home tile to be rendered on the client. This Struts/Tiles scheme does not need the loadLayout insertDefinition page. The Shale/JSF/Tiles scheme that I currently have working seems really clunky. Is there some way that I can reduce the two pages down to one page under Shale/JSF/Tiles? Also, I would be happy to share this war file or a more elegant one hopefully, if the group feels that this would be useful for others. I had to spend significant time to get this working example up and running and having a working example close to the head of the repository might be useful to others. Would it be worthwhile posting this or a modified war on JIRA for example? -=> Gregg <=-
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