Hi! As Antonio pointed out, this is a rather old thread and you may have easier solutions nowadays, depending on what you're trying to achieve.
If you just want to avoid code duplication, you've got a real problem with JSP before JavaEE 6. Grouping common JSPs in a separate webapp will just lead to more trouble because each webapp maintains its own user session (and authentication, unless you're using SSO, which is not trivial either). With JavaEE 6 you can put JSPs under META-INF/resources into a simple JAR file, and share the JAR like any other JAR between your webapps. With older servers, I'd advise a switch to velocity or freemarker: since the template engine is under the control of the application and not the server, it will provide you with the flexibility you need. hope this helps, Nick On 11-09-26 04:15 PM, kape wrote: > I'm having a similar problem and was hoping someone could post sample code. > I'm a front-end developer and am not too comfortable with Java but need to > write this custom renderer so I can get to the front-end JSP components. > > So similar to Brian, I would like to be able to refer to a JSP template that > is located in another application. This is because the header template, for > example, is identical across six web application, and my goal is to have one > common application that contains all the common templates and refer to these > templates in all six other web applications. > > I attempted to write a renderer but as I mentioned above, I don't really > know what I'm doing and since it appears to be fairly straight forward for > experienced Java developers, I was hoping someone could post the classes > needed to implement this solution. > > Thanks > > -- > View this message in context: > http://struts.1045723.n5.nabble.com/Including-External-Tiles-in-a-Template-tp3552714p4842776.html > Sent from the tiles users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
