Regarding complex Menu structures

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Ravi Shankar Nair - 26 Jun 2006 15:04 GMT

Dear all,

In our application, we need to create very complex menus:- top level in the
browser, followed by a bottom level, when you click on any of the first
level items(dynamic), and then third level, which will have again sub menus.
Basically it is an n-tree, not a binary tree. Is there any commercial or
open source tools/menu builders by which I can have the creation of such
menus based on a configuration file? It would be nice, if I can specify the
position of the menus as well in that configuration file.

Further, if I select a menu going through all heirarchies mentioned above,
then the page may contain some buttons, whose positions and enabled/disabled
flag also need to be configured.

Any one used such a complex architecture? If so, please help, and thanks in
advance.

Best regards,
Ravi

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Oliver Wong - 26 Jun 2006 15:15 GMT

> Dear all,
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> Best regards,
> Ravi

You mention application and web browser in the same post. Is this an
application, an applet, a JSP page or something else?

- Oliver

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Ravi Shankar Nair - 26 Jun 2006 20:44 GMT

It is a J2EE application :)

Thanks and regards,
Ravi

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Chris Smith - 26 Jun 2006 21:24 GMT

> It is a J2EE application :)

This means nothing at all. J2EE applications can interact with users
via GUIs, web pages, SOAP and other RPC APIs, cell phones, and any
number of other technologies.

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Oliver Wong - 26 Jun 2006 22:02 GMT

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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> In our application, we need to create very complex menus:- top level in
>>> the browser, followed by a bottom level, when you click on any of the
>>> first level items(dynamic), and then third level, which will have again
>>> sub menus.

[...]

>> You mention application and web browser in the same post. Is this an
>> application, an applet, a JSP page or something else?
>
> It is a J2EE application :)

By "menu", are you referring to HTML code, perhaps involving the <A
HREF="foo.html"> tag? Maybe you can post a screenshot showing a mockup of
what you want.

- Oliver

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Ravi Shankar Nair - 27 Jun 2006 15:22 GMT

Hi Oliver, Smith,

Not sure why you are not getting the idea. By menu, I mean the different
menu items that can be seen in web sites/web pages. The menus which when you
click, will take you to another page etc etc.

Thanks and regards,
Ravi

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Timo Stamm - 27 Jun 2006 15:44 GMT

Ravi Shankar Nair schrieb:

> Hi Oliver, Smith,
>
> Not sure why you are not getting the idea. By menu, I mean the different
> menu items that can be seen in web sites/web pages. The menus which when you
> click, will take you to another page etc etc.

You mean links?

> Thanks and regards,
> Ravi
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>> - Oliver

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Oliver Wong - 28 Jun 2006 15:17 GMT

> Hi Oliver, Smith,
>
> Not sure why you are not getting the idea. By menu, I mean the different
> menu items that can be seen in web sites/web pages. The menus which when
> you click, will take you to another page etc etc.

The term "menu" could ambiguously also refer to, for example, the
javax.swing.JMenu class or java.awt.Menu class, which are part of J2SE,
which is part of J2EE.

Anyway, I strongly suspect you DO mean dynamically generating <A
HREF="foo.html"> tags from an XML configuration file or something like that.
That being said, I don't know of any package which can read your mind, and
generate HTML which perfectly fits the layout of the page surrounding the
menu. Like I said, post a mockup screenshot of what you want. Are you gonna
be using frames? Is the menu easily isolatable in a <DIV> or <TABLE> tag, or
is it gonna be mixed in with the content? How is the hierarchy going to be
represented? Does clicking on a super-menu take you to a new page, or does
it trigger DHTML/JavaScript to make submenus visible?

- Oliver

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