Chapter 16. The Struts Tiles Tag Library: Creation Master Document Templates

IN THIS CHAPTER

• A Tiles Overview

• Enabling Tiles

• The Definitions Configuration File

• Writing JSP Files for Tiles

• Modifying Your Actions

• Putting It All Together

• Other Aspects of Tiles

• Conclusions

As you develop Web applications, you typically discover that each page has a core central element that changes, and is surrounded by relatively static elements such as the header, footer, and perhaps a side menu.

The Tiles taglib enables you to create a page template that you can use through your application, and which also enables you to define this structure in terms of a master XML template.

This chapter shows one possible way you could use Tiles to simplify your site design, but it isn’t intended to be a complete guide to the library itself. For that, you should take a look at the API guide on the Jakarta Web site.