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Dynamically changing JSP's like HTML

nitinaggarwalin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:19:00 GMT

HiWe have a Struts based web Application and we are using Alfresco as CMS.The problem we are facing is to dynamically edit jsp pages(we have about 60-70 jsps) in our application.Can anyone tell me how we can have the changes being reflected on the run if any of the content managers / admin changes

Re: Dynamically changing JSP's like HTML

kvc — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:38:07 GMT

Nitin:

Why not have your template generate the entire JSP from your template? Then, users can simply click edit on the JSP, access the form data, modify, and then preview the updated JSP directly. This seems an easier approach of generating an HTML and remembering with JSP to preview later.

Kevin

Re: Dynamically changing JSP's like HTML

nitinaggarwalin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:37:08 GMT

Is it possible to generate a JSP using webforms ? If so how ?

Re: Dynamically changing JSP's like HTML

tommorris — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:53:45 GMT

A simple approach I would attempt, would be to:

1. Use the freemarker option rather than the XSL option.
2. Rename your existing *.jsp pages to *.ftl.
3. Edit these ftl templates to insert the xml form data in as required.
4. Make sure the output path correctly ends with '.jsp'.
5. Make sure the mime-type remains as 'HTML'.

You can follow existing freemarker samples and don't forget to write the correct freemarker namespace declaration at the top.