For better struts/tiles support, myfaces has an integrated JspTilesViewHandler (since release 1.0.6 bate). The main advantage of the ViewHandler is, that tiles-definitions can be sourced out into xml files (up to now using tiles and myfaces you had to definie the layout within jsp-pages).
Have a look at the tiles-webapp example.
Steps to implement a myfaces-tiles application:
1) configure the JspTilesViewHandler in your faces-config:
<application>
聽聽聽<view-handler>net.sourceforge.myfaces.application.jsp.JspTilesViewHandlerImpl</view-handler>
</application>
2) add the following lines to your web.xml
<context-param>
聽聽聽<param-name>tiles-definitions</param-name>
聽聽聽<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
3) define your layout in a tiles-definition file (sample from the tiles-webapp).
When rendering the view, the JspTilesViewHandlerImpl will take the given viewId and compute a tileId by
- substituting any extension by ".tiles"
- appending ".tiles" if path-mapping is used
(eg. for viewId = /page1.jsp the lookup would be /page1.tiles)
By the way, the JspTilesViewHandlerImpl is part of the myfaces-components. So someone could use it with Sun's RI too.
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<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
聽"-//Apache聽Software聽Foundation//DTD聽Tiles聽Configuration//EN"
聽"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
聽聽聽<definition聽name="layout.example"聽path="/template/template.jsp"聽>
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽<put聽name="header"聽value="/common/header.jsp"聽/>
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽<put聽name="menu"聽value="/common/navigation.jsp"聽/>
聽聽聽</definition>
聽聽聽<definition聽name="/page1.tiles"聽extends="layout.example"聽>
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽<put聽name="body"聽value="/page1.jsp"聽/>
聽聽聽</definition>
聽聽聽<definition聽name="/page2.tiles"聽extends="layout.example"聽>
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽<put聽name="body"聽value="/page2.jsp"聽/>
聽聽聽</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
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