Newbee - Velocity and Struts-Menu

Hi

Simple newbee question:

I use ONLY Velocity (and Struts) to render my Pages in all of my 
Web-Apps. No JSPs at all.

All examples I was looking at use a JSP page as starting point with some 
jsp tags (<menu:useMenuDisplayer ....... </menu:useMenuDisplayer>). Can 
I use Struts-menu in a VELOCITY ONLY environment without ANY jsp tag 
library? Are there any pointers about how to configure it and a sample 
vm file?

Currently I use very ugly HTML tables as menues located in a frame on 
the top of the pages. All menu entries are dynamically built with 
Velocity depending on the role of a logged-in user. I like to replace 
them with CoolMenu 3 type menues it this is possible.

To process my roles I have derived 
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor and implemented my own 
processRoles() method.  I like to do something similar with struts-menu. 
Preferably the menu should be 'personalized' to a user depending on the 
roles he/she has. This should be done dynamically inside a special 
Struts-Action and rendered by a velocity template, e.g. menu.vm. A 
static XML File which contains all menu items does not fit my needs 
since it is not dynamic based on user roles.

Could anybody help me a step further and point me to samples if there 
are any or tell me what steps I need to do to get this done? Many thanks 
in advance.

Tom


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