menu system in front of a J2EE application

[Rivka Shisman <ri...@nite.org.il>]

Hi friends,

 

I need your advice about this:

 

I have a J2EE application that runs on Websphere application server.

The application contains a several web projects (WARs).

I need to implement a menu page that will be the front for all that web
projects.

 

1. Should that menu be a separate web project (WAR) in my application
and contain references to the other web projects? Or is there another
way?

2. Is struts-menu suitable for this purpose? Is it mature enough?

 

Thanks

Rivka

 

RE: menu system in front of a J2EE application

[Marco Mistroni <mm...@waersystems.com>]

Hello
	Not sure if you could..
An idea would be to use AOP and instead of loading the menu from
The menu-config.xml you could load it from your database

That could be a possibility, since afaik the menu is always
Contained within MenuLoader (or something like that),so it's not read
>From menu-config.xml all the time

I guess the author (Matt Raible) would know better

Regards
	marco


-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Danny Lee
Sent: 19 January 2006 11:09
To: user@struts.apache.org
Subject: Re: menu system in front of a J2EE application

You can use Struts-Menu, it's sure is a good thing.
The only issue is, that you can't generate the first menu level 
dynamically (or it's not easy).

So if you wan't to have something like:

Group 1
   - Project 1
   - Project 2
   - Project 3
Group 2
   - Project 1
   - Project 2
     - subproject 1
   - Project 3

You have in mind, that you have to put the Groups in JSP, but
you can build the rest of the structure dynamically using DB or
some other information source.

Or if you don't need any automation, you just use XML, like described in 
the S-Menu docs. That's real easy.

BTW Guys if someone of you knows how to build the first menu level
from the DB too, please write me!!! :)))

Cheers,

Danny


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Re: menu system in front of a J2EE application

[Danny Lee <ha...@yahoo.de>]

You can use Struts-Menu, it's sure is a good thing.
The only issue is, that you can't generate the first menu level 
dynamically (or it's not easy).

So if you wan't to have something like:

Group 1
   - Project 1
   - Project 2
   - Project 3
Group 2
   - Project 1
   - Project 2
     - subproject 1
   - Project 3

You have in mind, that you have to put the Groups in JSP, but
you can build the rest of the structure dynamically using DB or
some other information source.

Or if you don't need any automation, you just use XML, like described in 
the S-Menu docs. That's real easy.

BTW Guys if someone of you knows how to build the first menu level
from the DB too, please write me!!! :)))

Cheers,

Danny


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