| Portal |
- A portal is built by assembling Tiles in columns.
- A special layout exists
to do such think.
- This page is an example of a portal.
- To realize your portal, you specify which Tiles you want to be render in which columns.
This is done in centralized definition file or in <insert> tag.
- Other portal example
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User Customized Portal
(my Portal) |
- A portal can be customized by user.
- To do so, build a portal, and add it a "controller" checking and setting
user choosen Tiles.
- You also need to provide a page allowing user to choose and arrange its own Tiles.
- You can use provided example, or improve it to meet your need.
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| Rss Channels |
- This example shows how to do a Rss Channels Tile.
- The Tile is made of a controller loading the requested rss channels,
and a view (jsp page) rendering the loaded channels.
- It is possible to change the rendering page to adapt it to your need.
- Channels URLs are set in config files, or as http request parameters.
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| User Customized Layout (Skins) |
- It is possible to change the main layout used by one site
- Each layout shows the site in a differnent L&F
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| Administration |
- Some administration facilities are provided.
- It is possible to reload definitions configuration files without restarting
the web server.
- Also, it is possible to view definitions loaded and resolved by the factory.
- This facilities are used during development. They should be removed or protected with a password
if used in a production environment.
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| Reuse Tiles |
- A tile can be used several time in a same page
- For example, you can have a Tile rendering an address, and use it to
render as well shipping and billing addresses
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- new examples not yet available, see tutorial in meantime
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| Menu |
- Build easily menus by specifying entries (or items) to be rendered, and layout used to
render them.
- A menu entry can contains text, link, icon, tooltip, ...
- Menu layout renders each entry according to properties set.
- menu is inserted anywhere with the tag <tiles:insert name="menuName">
- It is possible to change all menus look and feel simply by changing menu layout.
No need to change already defined entries.
- All menus in this site are build using entries and menu layout.
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User Customized Menu
(my Menu) |
- It is possible to allow user to customize its own menu.
- User menu settings are stored in user session as a list of menu entries.
- The same layout as other menus is used, but the list is provided by an associated
"controller".
- You also need to provide a page allowing user to choose and arrange its own menu entries.
- You can use provided example, or improve it to meet your need.
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- Edit user menu entries :
my Menu
- Actual user menu :
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| Tabs Layout |
- You can easily build tabs by using predefined "tabs layout".
- All you need to do is to specify which bodies you want to render in tabs.
- You can also associate
name, icon and tooltip to tab index.
- Using provided example, you can easily customize the tabs layout rendering.
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| Internationalization (i18n) |
- Tiles provide some facilities for i18n
- It is possible to load a different Tile according to the user Locale setting
- Tiles have the same definition name, but different definition attributes.
- Definitions are defined in separate configuration files, one for each locale.
Appropriate file is loaded using the same rules as for Java properties :
configuration file name is extended with locale abreviations
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- new examples not yet available, see tutorial in meantime
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| Multi Channels |
- Tiles provide some facilities for "multi channels"
- It is possible to define different Tiles for different channels.
- Appropriate Tile is loaded according to channel key store somewhere (usually associated to current user)
- Examples of channels : [html, wml, ...] or [gold, silver, bronze, ...]
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