Adding a New Page

The following example extends the Base definition and uses a custom JSP named my_page.jsp to render the content tile. It renders content appropriate for the for a JSP named my_page.jsp:

<definition name=".page.MyPage" extends=".page.Base">
   <put name="page_title_key" value="message.my_page_title" />
   <put name="navbar" value=".nav_bar.MyPage" />
   <put name="content" value="/pages/my_page.jsp" />
</definition>

The rendered page consists of content from the masthead, navbar and content tiles. The content tile contains the output from my_page.jsp. (Even though the Base page tile definition contains references to the left-hand and “footer” tiles, these do not appear on the rendered page because they are not included in the page.jsp layout template.) The localized title string will be rendered in the browser’s title bar.

The definition name (.page.MyPage) can be referenced in a Struts ActionForward in the same manner as a regular file URI. Slashes can be used in a definition name, but by best practice convention, a period is used as a delimiter to distinguish the tiles definitions from file URIs, such as "/spe/user/Login.do".