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Posted to dev@struts.apache.org by Paul-J Woodward <pa...@db.com> on 2003/12/02 15:33:38 UTC
Dynamic assignment of tiles
Dear All,
I am working on an intranet website using struts/tiles. Due to server
restrictions write access is not allowed to the disk from which content is
served. In order to update/add to the content of the website dynamically I
need to change the tileDefinitions.xml file, which is obviously not
possible.
My only solution so far is to write my own version of the
org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition package to access a database instead
- essentially create a TilesDefinitionFactory which reads the definitions
from a database.
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or alternatives?
Paul
PS Apologies for the repost - on 2nd thoughts this seems far more
dev-oriented than most posts on users list.
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Re: Dynamic assignment of tiles
Posted by Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>.
The XMLs files are just used to generate an object graph. If you want to
change definitions dynamically, you'd want to look at changing the
object graph rather than the XML script.
Though, dynamic content is not usually dependant on the Tiles definition
itself. Typically, dynamic content is passed through the request and
then merged into the server page.
If you are talking about adding additional tiles to a list at runtime, I
believe Cedric describes some techniques for that in his advanced Tiles
document.
http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf
Essentially, you might be talking about creating a profile and then
using that profile to create the list of tiles to render.
Meanwhile, no this isn't a DEV topic, and yes, you should be posting
items like this to the USER list. DEV is for features that don't exist
yet :)
-Ted.
Paul-J Woodward wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am working on an intranet website using struts/tiles. Due to server
> restrictions write access is not allowed to the disk from which content is
>
> served. In order to update/add to the content of the website dynamically I
>
> need to change the tileDefinitions.xml file, which is obviously not
> possible.
>
> My only solution so far is to write my own version of the
> org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition package to access a database instead
>
> - essentially create a TilesDefinitionFactory which reads the definitions
> from a database.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or alternatives?
>
> Paul
>
> PS Apologies for the repost - on 2nd thoughts this seems far more
> dev-oriented than most posts on users list.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Global Equity Derivatives Technology
> Deutsche Bank [/]
> Office +44 (0)20 754 55458
> Mobile +44 (0)7736 299483
> Fax +44 (0)20 7547 2752
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Re: Dynamic assignment of tiles
Posted by Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>.
The XMLs files are just used to generate an object graph. If you want to
change definitions dynamically, you'd want to look at changing the
object graph rather than the XML script.
Though, dynamic content is not usually dependant on the Tiles definition
itself. Typically, dynamic content is passed through the request and
then merged into the server page.
If you are talking about adding additional tiles to a list at runtime, I
believe Cedric describes some techniques for that in his advanced Tiles
document.
http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf
Essentially, you might be talking about creating a profile and then
using that profile to create the list of tiles to render.
Meanwhile, no this isn't a DEV topic, and yes, you should be posting
items like this to the USER list. DEV is for features that don't exist
yet :)
-Ted.
Paul-J Woodward wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am working on an intranet website using struts/tiles. Due to server
> restrictions write access is not allowed to the disk from which content is
>
> served. In order to update/add to the content of the website dynamically I
>
> need to change the tileDefinitions.xml file, which is obviously not
> possible.
>
> My only solution so far is to write my own version of the
> org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition package to access a database instead
>
> - essentially create a TilesDefinitionFactory which reads the definitions
> from a database.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or alternatives?
>
> Paul
>
> PS Apologies for the repost - on 2nd thoughts this seems far more
> dev-oriented than most posts on users list.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Global Equity Derivatives Technology
> Deutsche Bank [/]
> Office +44 (0)20 754 55458
> Mobile +44 (0)7736 299483
> Fax +44 (0)20 7547 2752
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
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