Doh - I guess I wasn't clear enough. I want to have the Requests for the html pages (Section2) forwarded to a standardLayout page which uses tiles to provide consistent screens. The originally targetted html page needs to be included/embedded within the standardLayout page.
David, I guess I could be missing something (wouldn't be the first time), but I don't think your solution will give me that will it? Its more about allowing the html files to themselves contain a tile. If I could somehow get the html requests to be forwarded to a single page, then I could do it. But I can't see how to do this without using a 2nd ActionServlet which brings me back in the original pain. William ----- Original Message ----- From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: RE: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > William, > > For Section 2, IF you are using the same webapp, you can make a tile show up > in a JSP without using the Actionservlet (you just need to have the Struts > plugIn initialize the tiles from the tiles xml configuration. Try creating > a JSP with this type of syntax: > > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> > <tiles:insert definition="loginDef"/> > > Now, to get the *.html mapping to work, you'd have to reonfigure yout > application server to map *.html pages so they are handled by the JSP > engine. In tomcat, you can do that like this: > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > Regards, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using Tiles outside of an ActionServlet > > > I'm trying to create a WebApp with 2 sections. > > Section1 consists of Struts Actions managed by an ActionServlet and using > Tiles for consistent layout. The incoming requests will always be '*.do'. > > Section2 is a bunch of generated html fragments (each is a page's worth) > that I would like to embed in the Tiles I'm already using in Section1. Ie > Request for html page comes in and it is forwarded to the Tile page which > embeds the originally requested page. The incoming requests will always be > 'foo/<htmlpagename>.html' > > I thought I had it nailed. > > Attempt1: Have the request for Section2 be handled by its own ActionServlet, > with a very simple custom RequestProcessor. But Struts only allows a single > instance of ActionServlet (or subclass) within a WebApp. > > Atempt2: Use a single ActionServlet and either use a separate Module for > each section, or use a wildcard ActionMapping to catch all of Section2's > html requests. But Struts only allows a single servlet-mapping element for > the controller-servlet and I would need 2 (*.do and foo/*.html). NB further > Struts restriction is that when using Modules you can only use extension > paths in your servlet-mappings. > > > Attempt3: ??? I'm looking for ideas. > At the moment the only solution I can see is to implement my own Servlet > (not an ActionServlet subclass) which then uses the Tiles config and > mechanism to render the Section2 response with the required layout. > > Is there a better way? > > thanks in advance. > > William > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
