I configured my Spring based application (4.1.5) to use Tiles 3.0.5. In tiles.xml file I put a file that does not exist "ewfsdfsdf.jsp" to see if the configuration works, then I navigated to hello.htm but it shows hello.jsp rather than showing any error about not finding ewfsdfsdf.jsp file.
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.tiles.extras.complete.CompleteAutoloadTilesListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/springapp-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
</web-app>
tiles.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/baseLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Title is here (Tile)"/>
</definition>
<definition name="hello" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="HELERE"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="ewfsdfsdf.jsp"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
baseLayout.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title><tiles:insertAttribute name="title"/></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="header"/>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="menu"/>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="body"/>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="footer"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
springapp-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean name="/hello.htm" class="springapp.web.HelloController" />
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
HelloController
package springapp.web;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.Controller;
public class HelloController implements Controller {
protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
public HelloController(){
System.err.println("Constructor of HelloController");
}
@Override
public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
logger.info("Returning hello view");
return new ModelAndView("hello");
}
}
I could solve the problem by following this tutorial and adding following line to springapp-servlet.xml and two new jars
jars
jsf-api.jar
jstl.jar
new viewResolver added
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesViewResolver"/>