Struts1.3 tiles problem

[mahesh shinde]

I am developing application using struts1.3.10

when I forward to tiles mapping I get the message Page cannot found error

I have included the struts-tiles-1.3.10.jar

strutsConfig.xml

<action-mappings>
			<action path="/login" name="LoginForm" validate="true" input="/login.jsp"
				type="com.report.login.action.LoginAction">				
				<forward name="success" path="home.page" /> 
				<forward name="failure" path="/login.jsp" />
			</action>
		</action-mappings>
<controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor" bufferSize="4096"/>
	<!--
		========== Plug Ins Configuration ==================================
	-->
		<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">
			<set-property property="definitions-config"	value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml"/> 					
		</plug-in>

Web.xml

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>  
      
    <init-param>
      <param-name>config</param-name>
      <param-value>
          /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml          
       </param-value>
    </init-param>     
     <init-param>
        <param-name>chainConfig</param-name>
        <param-value>org/apache/struts/tiles/chain-config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

tilesdefs.xml

<tiles-definitions>
	<definition name="layout" page="/jsp/Layout.jsp">
		<put name="header" value="/jsp/Header.jsp" />
		<put name="body" value="/jsp/blank.jsp" />
		<put name="footer" value="/jsp/Footer.jsp" />
	</definition>
	<definition name="home.page" extends="layout">
	<put name="header" value="/jsp/Header.jsp" />		
		<put name="body" value="/login.jsp" />
		<put name="footer" value="/jsp/Footer.jsp" />
	</definition>
	<definition name="page.compbook" extends="layout">
	<put name="header" value="/jsp/Header.jsp" />		
		<put name="body" value="/jsp/compbook/compbook.jsp" />
		<put name="footer" value="/jsp/Footer.jsp" />
	</definition>
</tiles-definitions>

appreciate your help

[mahesh shinde]

Am I using outdated framework
But you use it before Struts2
So any hint
Please tell me if you need any other information to solve it

[Shankar Tanikella]

mahesh try with adding module awareness in struts-config as below and try it.

   <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">   
            <set-property property="definitions-config"  value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml"/>
            <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />                       
   </plug-in>

If that doesnt help, post the actual error stackstrace and when exactly you are getting this problem. Also post the Layout.jsp (header part, i hope you are including the taglib there)
Additionally, you should also include the tiles tag lib in your deployment descriptor

  <taglib>
  	<taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-uri>
  	<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

[mahesh shinde]

hey shankar thanks for the reply.
My configuration is exactly as you suggest.

(header part, i hope you are including the taglib there)
Additionally, you should also include the tiles tag lib in your deployment descriptor

yes I included both at the places you mention.
The error I got is Page not found Error.

I will try your ModuleAware suggestion.I will paste my Layout.jsp.
Thanks again for your reply.

[Shankar Tanikella]

May be there is some other problem? somthing is missed..
Just try removing the tiles part and forward directly to the JSP and see if it works?

[mahesh shinde]

No lucky with previous one
So I created one sample project.
Strusts-config entry
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin"> <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" /> <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" /> </plug-in>

my userform.jsp is like

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>
 
<tiles:insert definition="company-template" >
	<tiles:put name="body" value="/pages/userformbody.jsp" />
</tiles:insert>

and tiles-defs.xml

<tiles-definitions>
	<definition name="company-template" path="/pages/commonlayout.jsp">
	<put name="header" value="/pages/header.jsp" />
	<put name="footer" value="/pages/footer.jsp" />
   </definition>
</tiles-definitions>

and commonlayout.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<tiles:insert attribute="header"/>
 
<tiles:insert attribute="body"/> 
 
<tiles:insert attribute="footer"/> 
</body>
</html>

now I can see the userform.jsp with only the body part of my tiles

[Shankar Tanikella]

Mahesh,
If I am right, userform is the final JSP (the body)? You need not use the tiles in your userform.jsp.
Try something like below and let us know what is happening

in Struts-config

<action-mappings>   
	<action path="/login" name="LoginForm" validate="true" input="/login.jsp"  
		type="com.report.login.action.LoginAction">                 
		<forward name="success" path="userformjsp" />    	<!-- tiles definition (name), maz be this where zou are going wrong?? are zou forwarding to the JSP?-->	
	</action>   
</action-mappings> 

in tiles-def

<tiles-definitions>   
    <definition name="company-template" path="/pages/commonlayout.jsp">   
		<put name="header" value="/pages/header.jsp" />   
		<put name="footer" value="/pages/footer.jsp" />
		<put name="body" value="/pages/body.jsp" />		<!-- not mandatory -->
   </definition>   
   	<definition name="userformjsp" extends="company-template">
		<put name="body" value="/pages/userformbody.jsp" />
	</definition>
</tiles-definitions>

in commonlazout.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>   
<html>   
	<head><title></title></head>   
	<body>   
		<tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="false"/>   
		<tiles:insert attribute="body" flush="false"/>    
		<tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="false"/>    
	</body>   
</html> 

[Shankar Tanikella]

Also keep an eye on scroll bar... since we have not mentioned the tile height and width the jsps may overlap or painted one after the other...
zou can do that by having the tile inserted in div with a style, for example

<div style="my height and width definition">
       <tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="false"/>
</div>

[mahesh shinde]

thanks for your prompt response shanker.I will try

[mahesh shinde]

When I use this

<definition name="userformjsp" extends="company-template">  
        <put name="body" value="/pages/userformbody.jsp" />  
    </definition> 

in struts-config

<action path="/navigate" name="LoginForm" type="com.Navigate">
			<forward name="success" path="/userformjsp" />
		</action>

the same 404 eror
what it means exactly, its not found the tile definition

[Shankar Tanikella]

extremely sorry for the slash its not "/userformjsp", try just "userformjsp" in struts config

The path in struts forward means that it is going to look for the definition in the tiles else if any path is provided then it would directly consider that JSP. Say for example you have header, body and footer in all UI pages but not in logout page. Then for the logout forward can directly pointed to the logout.jsp which doent need tiles. However, it doesnt do it everytime. At the time of server start up, as part of deployment process of struts it creates objects designed based on struts-config and tiles-def coupling them. Try removing the struts-config from your war after server start up and see what happens. it explains the story... You were getting 404 Err since it considered the realtive path and ther is no such file
What does it mean extending a layout in tiles? In the above example, for most of the JSP's you would have the same layout and style definitions and it is unnecessary to mention for each forward about the header, footer right menu etc.. instead you can simple define one and reuse it by extending it and replacing whatever tile attribute you want. In this case your body JSP

[mahesh shinde]

thanks for followup
I have tried "userformjsp" this But I get the error to include the "/"

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path userformjsp does not start with a "/" character
	org.apache.struts.chain.ComposableRequestProcessor.process(ComposableRequestProcessor.java:286)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:462)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)

[Shankar Tanikella]

same here

You should still have this in struts config... do you have it?

<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">  
        <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />  
        <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />     
</plug-in> 

Else i shall create a new project and see whats exactly happening, we shall be in the same page

[mahesh shinde]

yes I have it in struts-config

[Shankar Tanikella]

Some time, just downloaded the example

[Shankar Tanikella]

Finally, i downloaded the struts1.3.10 sample (the blank one) which you were using earlier and modified it to configure tiles and it works fine (tiled)

The steps are as below

Made our JSPs ready (all JSPs are in pages folder itself)

commonlayout.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
<html>      
    <head><title>Shankar</title></head>      
    <body>      
        <tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="false"/>      
        <tiles:insert attribute="body" flush="false"/>       
        <tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="false"/>       
    </body>      
</html> 

footer.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<html:html>
<head>
<title>Shankar</title>
<html:base/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
	<h3>This is Footer</h3>
</body>
</html:html>

header.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>

<html:html>
<head>
<title>Shankar</title>
<html:base/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
	<h3>This is header</h3>
</body>
</html:html>

The same Welcome.jsp given in the blank example, no change..

web.xml

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>config</param-name>
			<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
		</init-param>
                         <!-- Shankar: Just added below param -->
		<init-param>
			<param-name>chainConfig</param-name>
			<param-value>org/apache/struts/tiles/chain-config.xml</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>

just added file named tiles-defs.xml just in the WEB-INF directory with exact content

tiles-defs.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN" "tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
	 <definition name="company-template" path="/pages/commonlayout.jsp">      
        <put name="header" value="/pages/header.jsp" />      
        <put name="footer" value="/pages/footer.jsp" />   
        <put name="body" value="/pages/Welcome.jsp" />       <!-- not mandatory -->   
   </definition>      
    <definition name="userformjsp" extends="company-template">   
        <put name="body" value="/pages/Welcome.jsp" />   
    </definition> 
</tiles-definitions>

Activated tiles in struts-config.xml

    <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >

      <set-property property="definitions-config"
                       value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />
      <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
    </plug-in>

lib directory of WEB-INF has only the downloaded jar namely

struts-core-1.3.10.jar

struts-taglib-1.3.10.jar

struts-tiles-1.3.10.jar

antlr-2.7.2.jar

commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar

commons-chain-1.2.jar

commons-digester-1.8.jar

commons-logging-1.0.4.jar

commons-validator-1.3.1.jar

oro-2.0.8.jar

Thats it, no more magic... it worked, i hope this time it will works for you as well,

[mahesh shinde]

Hey shanker Many Many thanks for your help.
finally we got working code.
Definately I will try this evening with blank sample and the Jar's you suggested .
Thanks Again

[mahesh shinde]

This time this celebration is for me because it works for me
I am very very happy
the problem is in DTD declaration
it should be

<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC  
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN" "tiles-config_1_1.dtd">  

mine was 1.3
Thanks Shankar

[stephan babu]

Please any one solve my problem with tiles,

I am having struts-config.xml and i have created one more struts-config-permit.xml,

and i am having tiles-defs.xml,

i have plug in that tiles-defs.xml in both the struts-config.xml and struts-config-permit.xml.

In struts-config.xml the tiles definition is called properly, but in struts-config-permit.xml its not working, it telling the error like,

Path permitPage does not start with a "/" character


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Posts: 3

[Post New]posted Today 12:59:30 PM
Quote Edit
in my project,

i have 2 struts config xml files.

i have 1 tiles-defs.xml file

i have plugin this tiles-defs.xml in both stuts-config.xml and struts-config-permits.xml files like below,
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
<set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />
<set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
</plug-in>



im my tiles-def.xml i codel like below,
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<definition name="mainPage" path="/mainTemplate.jsp">
<put name="title" value="Excise"/>
<put name="header" value="/header.jsp"/>
<put name="menu" value="/menu2.jsp"/>
<put name="content" value="/content.jsp"/>
<put name="footer" value="/alert.jsp"/>
</definition>

<definition name="permitPage" extends="mainPage">
<put name="content" value="/pc_permit_appli_frm.jsp"/>
</definition>


in my stuts-config-permit.xml i coded like below,
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<action path="/PermitAppliData" name="PermitMasterForm" scope="request" validate="true" type="nic.puduvaicalal.permits.PermitAction" input="/permits/pc_permit_appli_frm.jsp">
<forward name="data" path="permitPage" />
</action>


when i am caling the url "switch.do?prefix=/permits&page=/PermitAppliData.do" by click the menu i found the error below,
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path permitPage does not start with a "/" character
org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.PerformForward.handleAsForward(PerformForward.java:107)
org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.PerformForward.perform(PerformForward.java:96)
org.apache.struts.chain.commands.AbstractPerformForward.execute(AbstractPerformForward.java:54)
org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ActionCommandBase.execute(ActionCommandBase.java:51)


please anyone solve my problem..