[Opensource] The Great Frames Debate

Sat Mar 8 20:32:27 PST 2003

David Herron wrote:
> 
> On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 13:32 US/Pacific, Michael Rimov wrote:
> 
>> So, is there anybody that has a suggestion on how to remove the 
>> frames, WITHOUT removing any of the benefits that frames provide?
>>
> 

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  > For the site I'll experiment with Tiles, but at the moment what I read
> in the book doesn't impress me.  Sounds like everything you might want 
> to do is just as doable with jsp:include or with custom tags.  But maybe 
> the Tiles let you change the look of a whole site all at once just by 
> changing the tile definition.

Tiles is great for setting a standard layout for common set of web pages.

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Here is a simple tile layout for the Admin pages

<html>
<body>

<table width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
     <td colspan="2">
     <%-- Jcorporate logo and icon button menus --%>
     <tiles:insert attribute="navigation" />
     </td>
</tr>
<tr>

     <td width="150" >
     <%-- component menu --%>
     <tiles:insert attribute="component-menu" />
     </td>

     <td>
     <%-- user content --%>
     <tiles:insert attribute="body" />
     </td>

</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

then you can use the layout in a JSP

<tiles:insert page="/expresso/templates/AdminDefaultLayout.jsp" >
    <tiles:put put="navigation"	value="/expresso/standard/navigation.jsp" />
    <tiles:put put="navigation"	value="/expresso/standard/component-menu.jsp" />
    <tiles:put put="navigation"	value="/orangetrader/myscreen.jsp" />
</tiles:insert>

myscreen.jsp is where I define my body content. How difficult is it?

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