This ended up being a little tougher to accomplish than I had expected. I tried to override the TemplateEngineManager by specifying the bean in my struts.xml file. However, struts did not like that there was one already loaded from the struts-default.xml.
So I created a copy of the struts-default.xml and placed it in my class path with a different name. In this new default xml I replaced the configuration for the TemplateEngineManager with one that specified my class. I then updated the filter configuration in my web.xml to load my default xml file instead of the struts default xml. <filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter </filter-class> <!-- Override so that we can replace struts-default.xml with struts-sca-default.xml --> <init-param> <param-name>config </param-name> <param-value>struts-sca-default.xml,struts-plugin.xml,struts.xml</param-value> </init-param> </filter> In my custom TemplateEngineManager, I extended the existing TemplateEngineManager and overrode the getTemplateEngine() as such: public TemplateEngine getTemplateEngine(Template template, String templateTypeOverride) { TemplateEngine engSelected = super.getTemplateEngine(template, templateTypeOverride); if(engSelected instanceof JavaTemplateEngine) { if("simple".equalsIgnoreCase(template.getTheme())) { return engSelected; } // end if else { // JavaTemplateEngine currently only supports the "simple" theme, so need to override return super.getTemplateEngine(template, DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_TYPE); } // end else } // end if else { return engSelected; } // end else } // end getTemplateEngine Thanks, Ken -----Original Message----- From: Hoying, Ken [mailto:ken_hoy...@premierinc.com] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [Q] JavaTemplate Plugin I would like to make use of the JavaTemplate Plugin in order to improve my applications performance. However, I do have "ajax" themed tags, as well as, some of my own theme tags. I perfectly realize that the any non "simple" theme tags would not be able to take advantage of the performance improvement. However, I cannot seem to get my application to work at all. Does this mean that in order to use this plugin, I can only use the "simple" theme and no other? Cannot render tag [head] because theme [ajax] was not found. - [unknown location] at org.apache.struts2.views.java.JavaTemplateEngine.renderTemplate(JavaTemplateEngine.java:58) at org.apache.struts2.components.UIBean.mergeTemplate(UIBean.java:559) at org.apache.struts2.components.UIBean.end(UIBean.java:513) ----------------------------------------- ***Note:The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Sender immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Premier Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org