First, check out this live demo: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog/embeddedmasterpage-tomcat.do
See the "Sign In" cell? It is JSP/Struts web component, built with Struts Dialogs. This login component is rendered using a separate included JSP. It is: * independent. The only information needed is the URL where to redirect to re-render the component, possibly along with other child components. * it processes input by itself (check the URL in the address bar, and url of login form) * it is stateful It works with current JSP spec, but can be implemented easier if JSP spec were modified a bit. I am trying to find a person who can help me to fix the small issue with JSP spec. Now, check the page URL. Try to log in. Use guest/guest as username/password. After you logged in, you see... the same page, and same URL. Notice, that you cannot go "back". After you logged in, master page is updated, the prices are changed, and "Contact Us" menuitem is shown. I hope that this page will finally show you, what a cool thing Struts Dialogs is, and what a web component is. I started discussion on web controls/components about two weeks ago, but almost no one replied. Does this mean that components are available to .NET developers only? Or to JSF or portlet developers? No, you can create components in Struts, if you render them using JSP. Check out live demo, and see the source code. This is very simple, but powerful concept,based on the same idea of two-phase input processing (aka Post-Redirect-Get). Only instead of redirecting back to itself, component redirects to master page, and it reloads itself. This is it. Source code and runnable jars are at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49385&release_id=338164 Documentation is not available yet, and will be announced separately. Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
