Dave, You can have one template contain the header, footer, title, body, etc. components and simply set them to "" in templates that extend that definition and which don't need to display various components.
Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Eric Lemle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:58 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: Tiles - a reality check (contains many details) - Am Iusing this thing right? Did you create a template.jsp that inserts the header, footer, nav, and main tile? Eric D. Lemle Senior Programmer / Analyst Intermountain Health Care 36 South State Street, Suite 1100 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 United States of America (USA) (801) 442-3688 -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/22/2005 1:50:34 PM >>> Hi all I'm slowly figuring out the basics of Tiles, and I feel like its a good solution for my application. I want to make sure before I get to far that I'm thinking about things the right way. I have 1. a login page with a header, body and footer 2. Application itself which will contain a Header, Navigation, Body and Footer (same Header, and Footer as the login page). I have created the following directory structure ans JSP layout under my brand new shiny Struts 1.1 web application under the WebRoot Directory \WebRoot \WebRoot\WEB-INF \WebRoot\WEB-INF\tiles-defs.xml (listed below) \WebRoot\jsp \WebRoot\jsp\images \WebRoot\jsp\layouts \WebRoot\jsp\layouts\loginLayout.jsp \WebRoot\jsp\layouts\siteLayout.jsp \WebRoot\jsp\tiles \WebRoot\jsp\tiles\header.jsp (not full html page) \WebRoot\jsp\tiles\footer.jsp \WebRoot\jsp\tiles\navigation.jsp \WebRoot\jsp\loginBody.jsp \WebRoot\jsp\appPageBody.jsp Explanation: \layouts contains my JSP Layouts for the different parts of the app \tiles contains my reusable areas in the app (not complete html pages) \jsp contains the different "body" jsp files My question is : Is this a typical way to arrange a generic Tiles application? the problem come in when I try to use definition inheritance in the tiles-defs.xml file. See how in the tiles-defs.xml I have page.AppStart inheriting from base.definition, but it's using a DIFFERENT page as a template because the LOGIN page doesnt need navigation and th application page does... tiles-defs.xml <tiles-definitions> <!-- Base Tiles Definition --> <definition name="base.definition" path="/jsp/layouts/loginLayout.jsp"> <put name="header" value="/jsp/tiles/header.jsp" /> <put name="footer" value="/jsp/tiles/footer.jsp" /> </definition> <!-- Tiles Definition of login page --> <definition name="page.login" extends="base.definition"> <put name="title" value="Login Page" /> <put name="body" value="/jsp/loginBody.jsp" /> </definition> <!-- Tiles definition of mail application page--> <definition name="page.appStart" extends="base.definition" path="/jsp/layouts/siteLayout.jsp"> <put name="title" value="Application Title" /> <put name="nav" value="/jsp/navigation.jsp" /> <put name="body" value="/jsp/appStartBody.jsp" /> </definition> </tiles-definitions> -- -Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
