[Springframework-developer] TilesView & Resolver

[Alef A. \(JTeam\) <al...@jt...>]

Hi all,

Like I said in one of my previous mails, I haven't been able to read
much of the replies lately, since I had major connection problems.

However I saw someone commenting about the TilesView stuff I posted a
while ago. I recall you asking about whether or not it would be
integrated before 1.0. Well, that's the plan indeed. You commented that
the ViewResolver could better be a view configurer! Good idea!

There are still two points I'd like to address while finally putting it
in:

First of all there's the dependency on Struts. Of course there won't be
any runtime dependency if you don't use it, but I still strongly object
to linking in the Struts11.jar, simply because it would send the wrong
message. Why in heaven's name link in a competitor-MVC-framework! I just
doesn't feel right. However, since Tiles is completely integrated into
Struts, it will be hard to split the tiles.jar from it or something. We
would have to maintain ourselves or something like that, and that's a
mess too! Well, maybe some plugins feature or part of the website would
be nice, maybe some people can think about this.

Then there's the testing of the TilesView: it's working quite ok now,
however there's two things up for improvement. When a definition isn't
found, it says 404: [definition name]. This error message should be
improved a little bit. Then there's the issue where pages that are
included by Tiles definitions using the <tiles:insert>-tag. If those
aren't found, you won't get an error-message at all (and this can get
pretty annoying when just mistyping a directory name or something). I
don't know how the normal tiles stuff does this in Struts, but this is
up for improvement like I said.

If anyone (the one commenting about putting it in before te 1.0
release?) has suggestions for improvements in the next 14 days (I'm on a
holiday), just maintain the code in your own codebase and make them. Of
course it would be nice if you would post them back on the list!

Thanx for now,

Alef Arendsen


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