Re: Newbee - Velocity and Struts-Menu

Thomas Bednarz wrote:
> 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?

I'm currently doing this from within Spring. I'm using the Velocity code 
from struts-menu and the menu repository object. It's been useful, but 
far less so than if I was using from within a JSP. Mostly I'm using it 
to avoid recreating the functionality provided by the menu repository.

So within my controller, I place the menu repository into the equivalent 
of the Struts form bean (the command object) like so:

MenuRepository menuRepository = (MenuRepository) servletContext			 
.getAttribute(MenuRepository.MENU_REPOSITORY_KEY);
command.setMenuRepository(menuRepository);

Then within my Velocity template I use displayMenu macro taken from 
struts-menu:

<div id="menuDiv">
	<ul id="menuList">
	#foreach ( $page in ["general", "items", "pricing", "sites"] )
		#displayMenu($command.menuRepository.getMenu($page) 0)
	#end
     </ul>
</div>

HTH,

Rob



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