On 6/24/10 5:33 PM, Brian Thompson wrote:
Out of curiosity, has anyone on the list actually used both Tiles and
Sitemesh? I'd really like to read a comparison of the two
I used tiles with Struts1 about 6 years ago.
I've been using sitemesh with Struts2 for the last several years.
I think that sitemesh is more configurable and less constraining. I
recall fighting tiles quite a bit.
There's a chance this has changed, and if so someone please correct me,
but the basic architecture of the two are upside down from one another.
With sitemesh your view layer executes (bottom up), then the output of
that is collected on the server and pushed through the decorator, which
means you can have the decoration change based on the content being
decorated, but the cost is that if you generate REALLY LARGE amounts of
output for a single page, that translates into REALLY LARGE temporary
memory requirements in your server.
With tiles it constructs and outputs the page in order, so it can get
handed directly to the response and does not need to be stored on the
server, but in order to do that the output is generated in the order the
tiles define (top down), making it hard to do anything "special" in
outer tiles based on what's determined/displayed by the actual page content.
-Dale
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