Dynamically Load Menus with SiteMesh

If you want to load different menus based on the current page using SiteMesh, you are on the right blog entry:)

In your template page, get decorator property and set it to currentMenu variable.

<c:set var="currentMenu" scope="request">
<decorator:getProperty property="meta.menu"/>
</c:set>

and use it to include menu as menu page name

<jsp:include page="/includes/${currentMenu}.jsp"/>

and in your jsp pages, specfiy which menu to be used when this page is loaded

<meta name="menu" content="abc_menu"/>

Here, be careful with the names. As in the last code, you stated your menu name abc_menu. Then you need a jsp page for menu : abc_menu.jsp. You may only just menu items.

If you state in another jsp page something like this :

<meta name="menu" content="abc_menu2"/>

then you will need abc_menu2.jsp

That is it.