How to include headers&footers in Tapestry templates ?

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi.
Can we use JSP pages as the templates for Tapestry ?
I'm asking this beacause I was wondering to include the header and the footers in all pages of the application ?
Thanks.

[Gregg Bolinger]

No, you can't use JSP's in Tapestry. Why would you want to?

Tapestry has a built in templating system. That's what all those HTML files are for. What you need to do is create a Border page that will consist of your template. The part of that "Border" page where you want the main part of your page to display goes in a RenderBody tag.

Buy Kent Tong's book. It's only $20 US and it is an excellent book on Tapestry. There is a whole chapter that deals with creating a "Border" or template for your site. Very easy to do too.

[Reid M. Pinchback]

Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
No, you can't use JSP's in Tapestry. Why would you want to?

It would be bizarre, but strictly speaking I believe you could make it happen if you have to. This doesn't sound like it fits at all into the have to category.

For the bizarrely inclined, you would use the RequestContext to get to HttpServletRequest, which gives you access to the RequestDispatcher, from which you could do a servlet include. That is your path to anything servlet-based, including JSPs.