We have an application written with
Struts 2.1.8.1 that uses the dojo plug-in for the tabbed panels. We need to add functionality to this application that provides tree support. So basically, the app has a top level menu, clicking on each item will display a set of tabs for that item. Some tabs will need to display a tree control where clicking on items in the tree will change the contents of a div to the right of the tree. I also need the tree to maintain state, so if I leave the screen and come back the tree is expanded to the same state with the same item selected.
I was trying to get the dojo <sx:tree> tag to work, and I was running into a lot of problems. After doing some more research, I learned that dojo has been deprecated with Struts 2.2.1. It also seems like people are moving away from tag-based solutions and moving more toward javascript solutions. Is this considered the current best practice?
I've been reading a lot about jquery, but it doesn't look like it has any support for a tree. I've also found some third-party commercial javascript tree controls. Two of them I'm looking at are
http://www.treemenu.net/
and
http://www.javascripttreemenu.com/.
Does anyone know if there are better options?
Thanks.