Exercise 10: Using Struts and Tiles
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/*
Technical Objectives for this exercise:
The technical objectives of this exercise is to learn ?how to?:
1) Use Struts and Tiles
a) Add TilesRequestProcessor to struts-config.xml
<controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor" />
b) Define the Tiles Plugin
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
<set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />
<set-property property="moduleAware" value="true"/>
</plug-in>
c) Create an empty Tiles definition file tiles-defs.xml under /WEB-INF directory
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
</tiles-definitions>
d) Add the base definition to the tile definition xml
<definition name="base.definition" path="/Layout.jsp">
<put name="title" value=""/>
<put name="header" value="/common/header.jsp" />
<put name="footer" value="/common/footer.jsp" />
<put name="body" value="" />
</definition>
e) Create the definition for each of the three pages by extending the above definition and overriding
the empty values
f) Change the references to physical jsps in struts-config.xml and replace them with one of the above
names. For instance, change all references to
NOTE: There is no replacement for index.jsp. Let us keep it as is. Hence don?t change references to
index.jsp
....
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