Basing a Component on another Component

why $basedOn ?

Use the $basedOn property to apply the configuration properties of one component to another. You can override individual properties for the component that is based on the other. Use the $basedOn property when you need multiple components to share many of their configuration properties.

Set the value of the $basedOn property to the Nucleus path of the component that will supply property values to the current component.

Consider the below example:

Consider we have two component file say compA.properties and compB.properties lets say compB want to use the configuration of compA(all the values and variables sharing) we give as $basedOn=/path/CompA

compA.properties

$class=com.classfile

name=kavi

compB.properties

$basedOn=path/compA

test.jsp

<importbean bean="./compB"/>

<dsp:valueof bean="compB.name"/>

output:

kavi