I have two versions of a component to be displayed based on the url string for example:
http://localhost/index.li?id=a
This is supposed to display version 1
http://localhost/index.li?id=b
This is supposed to display version 2
What I was told to do is the following in the parent jsp file:
<jsp:include page="/somepage/components/acomponent.jsp">
<jsp:param name="param1" value="value1"/>
<jsp:param name="param2" value="value2"/>
</jsp:include>
The question I have is in my acomponent.jsp what name and values do I use to switch between versions? For example:
<div id="version1"></div>
<div id="version2"></div>
You could get the id off of the URI (either with JSTL or Scriptlets) and then pass that into your acomponent.jsp file like so.
<jsp:include page= "/somepage/components/acomponent.jsp">
<jsp:param name="value1" value="<id you got off of the URI>"
</jsp:include>
Then, within your acomponent.jsp file, you could do something like this:
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${value1 eq 'a'}">
--JSP CODE FOR WHEN A NEEDS TO BE USED
</c:when>
<c:otherwise>
--JSP CODE FOR WHEN B NEEDS TO BE USED
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
Hope this helps.