Reusable Layouts - Stripes...and Java Web Development is Fun Again - page 130

layout.jsp

<s:layout-definition>
Header: ${title}
<div><s:layout-component name="body"/></div>
Footer
</s:layout-definition>

renderer.jsp

<s:layout-render name="/layout.jsp" title="My Title">

<s:layout-component name="body">
Hello, reusable layout
</s:layout-component>
</s:layout-render>

result

Header: My Title
<div>Hello, reusable layout</div>
Footer

Figure 7.1: The Stripes reusable layout tags

7.1 Basic Stripes Layout Concepts

Look at the example illustrated in Figure 7.1 . Stripes reusable layouts
come down to three tags and four concepts:

Layout: A template that can be reused for multiple pages. To indicate
that a JSP defines a layout, just wrap the contents with opening
and closing <s:layout-definition> tags.

Renderer: A page that uses a layout to produce a result. Use the
<s:layout-render> tag with the path to the layout JSP in the
name= attribute to render the layout. Starting with a forward slash
( / ), write the path relative to the web application's root directory.