customization

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I want to change the look n feel of the forum to match my remaining website. The remaining website is built on jsp and i have header & footer jsps, which I'm including in other pages using jsp:include tag. Now the forum uses templates, which are in .htm. Is there a way i can include my header/footer jsps in forum templates, so that the forum will get look n feel of my website?
[originally posted on jforum.net by balakiran]

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Hm, I guess not. At least not without some code modification. Take a look at http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Hey there,

One option might be to use SiteMesh around the JForum installation so you can add your standard headers & footers without having to get too much into JForum code.

As Sitemesh templates can be based on JSP, you could include your own JSPs easily.

GL!
[originally posted on jforum.net by GreenEyed]

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I evaluated SiteMesh once, but, at least for JForum, I concluded it will add unnecessary complexity. Is much easier for me to provide some utility method that can handle JSP / Velocity and etc stuff than migrate everything to SiteMesh.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Hello,

I might have explained myself badly . I was not suggesting JForum to be ported to Sitemesh, but just saying that one option to integrate it into another look & feel would be to use Sitemesh to add the headers and footers to JForum so you don't have to touch JForum's code.

So JForum would not need to be modified. It was more a suggestion for balakiran than to you Rafael ;).

Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers!
[originally posted on jforum.net by GreenEyed]

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Thank you for all your replies. Rafeal, please let me know if you have plans to provide any utilities, so that anybody could use headers/footers for jforum. I guess this would be a add-on for JForum.

Any suggestions?
[originally posted on jforum.net by balakiran]

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I'll see what I can do, but I don't promiss anything for the short run

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]