I have started looking at Struts, and it seems to have aserious shortcoming with respect to the customization of web pages:
One of our main services offers a standardized, as well as custom interfaces, so for example the standard service is accessed via http://www.datastarweb.com/ , but a company that has contracted the set up of a customization, can access it by providing in addition the customization's name, for example 'foo', as http://www.datastarweb.com/foo We also need to be able to customize pages according to locale in a more flexible way than just replacing tokens by language-dependent strings (although we also do that for simple sentences that do not include dynamic text). In this case when the application requires to show a page called bar.html, if the language preference is German, for example, the following sequence of pages will be tried: bar_foo_de.html bar_de.html While trying out Cocoon, I was able to handle the customization part by always using the customization prefix in URIs (like http://localhost/app/foo/somepage.xsp), but not the language, although probably it could be handled in a similar way except in the login page: <map:match pattern="*/**.xsp"> <map:act type="resource-exists" src="xsp/{2}_{1}.xsp"> <map:generate type="file" src="xsp/{../2}_{../1}.xsp"/> <map:serialize type="xml"/> </map:act> <map:generate type="file" src="xsp/{2}.xsp"/> <map:serialize type="xml"/> </map:match> I don't think there is a way of achieving this with Struts. Thanks -- Fernando Mato Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomson Dialog
