I'm coming from a Struts/Tiles background and really like the Tiles
approach to page layout. My first endevour with JSF involves converting
an existing Struts/Tiles web application to JSF. I've got the Tiles
integration with MyFaces setup but as I was converting the tiles
(header, footer, body, leftnav, etc) I ran into the JSF requirement that
all template text and custom JSP tags in included pages must be nested
in a <f:verbatim> tag. This led to some really nasty looking pages. For
example, I found myself doing this on a couple occasions...
<f:verbatim><div id="header"></f:verbatim>
<h:outputText styleClass="headerText" value="This is my header"/>
<f:verbatim></div></f:verbatim>
Is there another way? How are other people breaking their JSPs down into
"modular" chunks so that they can be reused? I guess one answer is to
avoid template text and custom tags all together and just use JSF
components exclusively. Unfortunately in this case that is not a
realistic option.
Thanks,
Norm Deane
http://jroller.com/page/deanen
