So my tiles definition looks like following and I would like to know how I can manage it to show a specific template on a specific view: I want that the default template ist "commonPage" and for e.g. "/monitor1" return value I want the emptyTemplate to be applicated.
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="commonPage" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/layouts/topmenulayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/jsp/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/views/menu.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/jsp/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="emptyPage" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/layouts/emptylayout.jsp">
</definition>
<!-- Views ending in "Dialog" have no header, menu or -->
<!-- footer. Useful for creating jQuery popup dialogs. -->
<definition name="*/*Dialog" template="/WEB-INF/views/{1}/{2}Dialog.jsp" />
<definition name="*Dialog" template="/WEB-INF/views/{1}Dialog.jsp" />
<!-- All other views get the header, menu and footer tiles. -->
<!-- I want commonPage as default template, and e.g. for "/Monitor1" return value I want the emptyLayout -->
<definition name="*" extends="commonPage">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/{1}.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
It was pretty easy to solve it. I added the following definition and it worked the way I wanted it to be:
<definition name="*Monitor1" extends="emptyPage">