include mechanism problem

[mike mimmis]

Dear Ranchers,

I have a small doubt but I could not able to find a solution for it. Please help me regarding this issue.

Issue: in my web application there are nearly 40 JSP pages all JSP pages with same header and footer. So I have designed 2 jsp pages like

1. header.jsp

2. footer.jsp

What I have done is I have included this two pages in my all 40 JSP pages with following mechanism

<jsp:include page="header.jsp" />

It is working fine but what is my problem is whenever I want to rename the header.jsp or footer.jsp to other names I have to change the file names in all my 40 JSP pages.I want avoid changing the same file names in 40 pages. Is there any solution for this problem.

Please reply me as soon as possible.

Thanks and Regards,

mike......

[mac dn]

Use Frame instead of including pages(Header and Footer) in every page. It will solve your problem.

[Tarun Bolla]

Hi mike,
I havent tested the approach but here is a possible solution
Create a Constants file..Say Some AppConstants.java which contains final strings for configuration purposes
Now in your jsp you can write

<jsp:include page="<%= AppConstants.HEADERPAGEURL %>" /> 

That way you need to change the header page url at one location...in your AppConstants.java

[Bear Bibeault]

Frames are a poor approach. They are rarely used in modern web apps and are deprecated in HTML5.

Sounds like all you need is a good source code editor that can do a replace across all files in a project.

[Bear Bibeault]

Tarun Bolla wrote:
<jsp:include page="<%= AppConstants.HEADERPAGEURL %>" />

Scriptlets are 10 years out of date and should never be used in JSP pages written after 2002. Besides, that's hardly a general solution for markup for the header and footers.

[mallikarjun dontamsetti]

I am using J-Developer 11 it has that facility to replace the file name when you change the file name.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

mallikarjun dontamsetti wrote:I am using J-Developer 11 it has that facility to replace the file name when you change the file name.

Ohh. cool even eclipse has it! Alt+shift+R

[mallikarjun dontamsetti]

Seetharaman Venkatasamy wrote:

mallikarjun dontamsetti wrote:I am using J-Developer 11 it has that facility to replace the file name when you change the file name.

Ohh. cool even eclipse has it! Alt+shift+R

In eclipse it ask for only rename of the file but in J-Developer if you click rename it ask's like this "rename the file and update the references" when you say yes it updates the reference location also.

[Bear Bibeault]

Most IDEs will do this (eclipse, IntelliJ, and so on).

[mallikarjun dontamsetti]

Is eclipse update the reference when i rename the file name?

[mike mimmis]

Hi all,

Thanks for your valuable suggestions. Now I can solve this issue with your suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,
mike