Re: Including multiple servlets from a jsp page.[Now: Tiles Help]

[Chris Blackburn <cb...@stinkytoe.com>]

Thank you very much! That was exactly what I needed. Now I just need a 
little advice on working with Tiles.
Do I need to have a tiles definition for every single different view?

 I will give a small example.

<definition name="page.default" path="/templates/index.jsp">
  <put name="head" value="/common/head.jsp" />
  <put name="centersection" value="center.section" />
  <put name="bottomtable" value="/common/bottomtable.jsp" />
 </definition>
<definition name="center.section" path="/templates/centersection.jsp">
  <put name="leftbar" value="left.bar" />
  <put name="mainsection" value="/common/mainsection.jsp" />
 </definition>
<definition name="left.bar" path="/templates/leftbar.jsp">
  <put name="first" value="/common/navigation.jsp" />
  <put name="second" value="list.events" />
 </definition>

This will give me the look for my front page. But lets say once you log 
in, you have a different 'left.bar'. So I would have to add:

<definition name="login.page.default" extends="stinkytoe.default">
  <put name="centersection" value="login.center.section" />
 </definition>
<definition name="login.center.section" extends="center.section">
  <put name="leftbar" value="login.left.bar" />
 </definition>
<definition name="login.left.bar" extends="left.bar">
  <put name="second" value="/common/userinfo.jsp" />
 </definition>

That seems like a ton of work for each new view. If my 'mainsection' is 
my content area, that means I need to add 2 definitions for each new 
content page? Is there a way to dynamically insert a page as the 
'mainsection' Am I missing something here?

Thanks again,

Chris


Hubert Rabago wrote:

>Tiles is one way to do it.  Take a look at the Tiles Controller.
>http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/tiles/Controller.html
>
>Check out http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=Tiles101 for some
>explanation on it.
>
>--- Chris Blackburn <cb...@stinkytoe.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I am trying to build a web page that will have multiple dynamic content
>>fed from multiple servlets. I thought I could just do something like:
>>
>><-- index.jsp -->
>>
>><c:import url="top.jsp"/>
>><c:import url="/servlet1.do"/>
>><c:import url="/servlet2.do"/>
>><c:import url="bottom.jsp"/>
>>
>><-- end -->
>>What I would like to happen is have the struts servlet be run, and have
>>the resulting jsp page (defined in the <forward> section of my
>>struts-config.xml) be "imported" into that spot. This works just fine if
>>there is only one servlet being called, but fails if there are more. The
>>error is "Cannot forward after result has been committed".
>>
>>What do I need to do? Do I need to look at something like tiles? Any help,
>>or references to some help would be great.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Chris
>>
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