Wendy, The beauty of tiles is that they can operate entirely as autonomous components. The case you are talking about is the simplest, one controller (=the Struts Action class) that forwards to a view which is composed of several small tile views where each tile contains JSP and has no action to execute. The case I am talking about is having a page with tiles in it, where each can have something to do before going to the tile's JSP fragment. The case I was talking about is when you have a tile which is part of a big page and can be planted anywhere, that needs to initialize a form. The containing page's controller action cannot do that for the tile because it does not always know that the tile will be included.
Hope this time I made myself clearer :) --Erez -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: initialize a form in a tile From: "Jim Barrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <put name="formBit" value="/setupForm.do"/> I have nothing with .do in my tiles-defs.xml file. One of mine looks like: <definition name="account.inquiry.page" extends="masterPage"> <put name="heading" value="Account Inquiry" /> <put name="tabs" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/accountInquiryMenu.jsp" /> <put name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/accountInquiry.jsp" /> </definition> accountInquiry.jsp has the form in it, and the Action that forwards to 'account.inquiry.page' handles prepopulating the form if necessary. I don't think I understand the original question though... the Tiles stuff comes at the end, it's a replacement for the JSP. The Tiles controller just handles assembling the parts, it doesn't need to know about the form. At least, not the way I use it. -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
