how to invoke tiles definition from JSP

[santosh gunake]

Hello

How to invoke the different tiles definitions from a JSP page

[Travis Hein]

I gues you could use conditional statements around the tiles tags.

I based this example off of
http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-tiles/examples.html

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
 
<% if (youWantDefinition1) { %>
<tiles :D efinition id="templateDefinition" template="layout1.jsp">
  <tiles :p ut name="title"  value="This is the title." />
  <tiles :p ut name="header" value="header.jsp" />
  <tiles :p ut name="body"   value="page1.jsp" />
</tiles :D efinition>
 
<% } else { %>
 
 
<tiles :D efinition id="templateDefinition" template="layout2.jsp">
  <tiles :p ut name="title"  value="This is the title." />
  <tiles :p ut name="header" value="header.jsp" />
  <tiles :p ut name="body"   value="page2.jsp" />
</tiles :D efinition>
 
<% } %>

though i would use the jstl <c:if> or <c:choose> tags instead of the scriplet conditionals.

and usually I create a tiles-defs.xml and put definitions there and have it installed with struts with the tiles request processor. (see link above to the tiles documentation site) and if i do any dynamic switching in the jsp, it would then be with the <tiles :p ut> tags within a conditional construct.
[ July 03, 2006: Message edited by: Travis Hein ]