You can do this easily using the <bean:define> tag and the RequestDispatcher. I've put a page up on my web site showing how:
http://www.niallp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/emailTemplate.html I believe the RequestDispatcher is the "magic" JSP processor you're looking for. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stranathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:00 AM Subject: OT - Evaulating JSP as internal template? > The subject is prolly a poor way to say what I'm trying to say.... > > Does anybody know of a simple way to use JSP as an INTERNAL templating > engine. For example, if I have a struts application where I'm > generating an email to send, I currently have to use Velocity on the > server side to put the values into the template, then send that. > > Is there a simple way to do the same with JSP? Would I be best served > by on the server side, constructing an HTTP request to a JSP that simply > pops in the request attributes into the correc place? > > High-level of what I want to do: > > ActionForward execute(mapping, form, request, response) { > MyForm myform = (MyForm)form; > > Hashtable vals = new Hashtable(); > vals.put("user",form.getUser()); > vals.put("car",form.getCar()); > > JSPProcessor proc = new JSPProcessor(); > proc.getRequestScope().put("values",vals); > StringBuffer buff = proc.evaluate("WEB-INF/templates/email.jsp"); > > MailUtils.mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",buff); > } > > Where JSPProcessor is the kind of magic I'm looking for. I don't really > see anything built into the API spec, so I SUSPECT if there were > anything available in Tomcat, for instance, it would be implementation > specific. > > Not a HUGE deal, but it's kinda' a pain to have to train new folks on > how to put together the JSP's AND how to put together the velocity > templates. > > Thanks, > Will > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
