I was a beginner too, so don't be so cruel with yourself ;-) By the way,
Heh :-)
if you want to make something complicated, remember that you can put ANY URL in your <put> element. For example, I put an Action's URL, so that it loads some data. This Action forwards to a JSP page that will be displayed only in that part of the page.
I don't think that helps me in this case, although it's an interesting point. I've been playing around with some different approaches but I'm fundamentally blocked by the fact that a JSP referenced in a tiles definition doesn't have access at render time to any other attributes in that tiles definition; that is to say, if I have the following definitions:
<definition name="layout" path="/layout.jsp">
<put name="title" value="TITLE"/>
<put name="content" value="CONTENT"/>
</definition>
<definition name="foo" extends="layout">
<put name="title" value="Page Title"/>
<put name="content" value="page.jsp"/>
</definition>then foo.jsp can't contain a reference to the 'title' Tiles attribute.
I think I've worked out how to get what I want using tag files instead, so I'm going to try using them instead of Tiles and see if the problem gets any easier that way :-)
Page definitions are not recognized as correct paths by Struts, so that you cannot call a page definition directly with an URL (please Struts team correct me if I am wrong). You have two possibilities two show a Tiles definition: 1. Through a JSP page, using: <tiles:insert definition="nameofthedefinition" /> 2. You can forward to a tiles definition, i.e. in your struts config you can use: <forward name="forwardname" path="nameofthedefinition" /> but you must modify the <controller> element in your struts-config.xml:
<controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor"/>
Except that's how Struts is configured out of the box, so no config change required. However, I'm pretty sure Struts 1.1 threw an error if the path for a forward didn't begin with a '/'. Either that or I got confused by something else when I was first getting to grips with Tiles.
I remember because Struts in Action advised using Tiles .names.like.this and when I tried it I found I had to change it to /names.like.this to get past the error. As I say, though, I was just getting to grips with Tiles at the time, so I may have that all mixed up!
L.
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