RE: [Springframework-developer] Questions and additions

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

<quote>BTW, how exactly does your TilesView work? As far as I know,
Tiles can be largely used as tag library, without the need for dedicated
integration. The most interesting usage for integration is probably with
content definitions - a la
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/jw-0104-tilestrut.html
Solution 6, but with Spring instead of Struts. Do you intend to offer a
solution for this, basically a Spring View that renders such content
definitions that consist of Tiles components?</quote>
Exactly! That's what it already does. I've made the TilesViewResolver to
be configurable from the xxx-servlet.xml (see code below). It searches
for the factory and stuff. The TilesView basically is the same as the
integration in Struts, where you can 'forward' to a definition using the
ActionForward. It's kind of simple. The only thing that needs to be
tested a little bit is the Tiles Controller concept (where you can
attach a controller to each tile, that retrieve data for this specific
tile). I hardly ever use this, but well, other people might.

<quote>Regarding code structure, I'm not entirely sure why you need a
TilesViewResolver - what resolution functionality does it add? Wouldn't
TilesView instances, each defining a content page as arranged Tiles
components, work too when they get configured via
ResourceBundleViewResolver or XmlViewResolver?</quote>
Hmm, you might be right here... I'll have a look into that... Anyway,
I've attached the files like they are right now... Just FYI. Don't mind
the packagenames and stuff, documentation still needs to be done... Any
suggestions? Always welcome...

<quote>I'm looking forward to your code! Thanks for your
efforts!</quote>
No problem, It's a cool framework, worth of adding features in order to
make it fit my (and other's) needs more...


---- xxx-servlet.xml ----
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="jteam.jbosssupport.web.util.TilesViewResolver">
        <property name="factoryClass">
 
<value>org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet</value>
        </property>
        <property name="definitions">
            <props>
			<!-- this is a little weird, definitionfiles
mapped to descriptions -->
                <prop key="/WEB-INF/defs/general.xml">The General
resources</prop>
                <prop key="/WEB-INF/defs/widgets.xml">Some often used
widgets</prop>
                <prop key="/WEB-INF/defs/administrator.xml">Some often
used widgets</prop>
                <prop key="/WEB-INF/defs/customer.xml">Customer
definitions</prop>
                <prop key="/WEB-INF/defs/templates.xml">Often used
templates</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
</bean>