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What is the advantage of using SiteMesh over Struts Tiles?

April 26, 2017advantage sitemesh struts tiles

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What is the advantage of using SiteMesh over Struts Tiles?

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Tiles seems to just replicate the tag (albeit without the advanced page parsing of SiteMesh). However this is a very small part of what SiteMesh. The strongest attribute of SiteMesh is that the decorators are applied with a filter – therefore you can decorate pages without the pages themselves knowing they are being decorated (so you can apply a single SiteMesh decorator to a site that uses PHP, JSP and ASP if you want). Also using DecoratorMappers you can map which decorator/s are used in a number of different ways (ie have one decorator for printable pages, another for robots and another for Netscape users – all without changing the underlying page). That said, you can also alter which decorator is applied from the underlying page (note, the decorated page doesn’t need to know it’s being decorated – however if it does know it can pass parameters and choose decorators in SiteMesh – powerful). Also SiteMesh has a full property system (ie decoratedPage.getTitle() o