I am going to create an admin module as part of a web site, where administrators can select certain pages of the web site and modify certain sections of the page.

I am thinking of the following approaches, but what do you think?:

1) Server Side Includes
2) Java and XML
3) Using Frames to display the customizable text which is saved as an HTML / TXT file.

Any ideas? Has anybody done something similar?

Alejandro

SSI is generally OK for small pieces of dynamic content. How about using the include directive or action in a JSP?

What about jsf or using another framework?

JSF sounds really interesting.

Have you worked with it? Have you worked with Struts?

I need 2 components:

1) An admin page that modifies the content. (write to file functionality -either a file that is called from a JSP page with an INCLUDE, or directly write to editable sections of a web page- I would prefer the last approach).

2) A web page that displays the content.

Alejandro

Include action versus directive:

http://spdoc.cineca.it/oracle8i/java.817/a83726/keydev1.htm#1015959

I will try it .

Alejandro

The directive sounds interesting.

So basically, I will just need to provide a way to save the modified contents in that external file from the Admin module, and just load it with the include on the JSP page for the end-users, right?

Now , what is the difference between using:

  <%@ include file="relativeURL" %>

and

   <jsp:include>

Alejandro