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I just had success after a days hard work in integrating Tiles with Spring MVC.

Let me know if anyone need the example, I can paste the files here.

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Hi Tauri,

I am looking for the code,can you paste here.

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Hey lemme know where you are stuck?

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Hi Tauri,

Am in process of learning spring,expecting your code to know how Spring MVC need to be Integrated with Tiles.

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Here it goes..

springapp-Servlet.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">


<beans>

<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles-def.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>
</bean>


<bean id="urlMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true"/>

<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/example.htm">exampleController</prop>
</props>
</property>

<property name="interceptors">
<list>
<ref bean="localeChangeInterceptor"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="exampleController" class="test.ExampleController">
<property name="viewName" value="example"/>
</bean>

</beans>

web.xml\
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<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>

tiles-def.xml
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<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"<DTDURL>/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>


<definition name="head-tile" path="/ui/head.jsp"/>
<definition name="left-nav-tile" path="/ui/leftnav.jsp"/>
<definition name="body-tile" path="/ui/body.jsp"/>
<definition name="foot-tile" path="/ui/foot.jsp"/>

<definition name="example" template="/WEB-INF/ui/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="body-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/body.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="head-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/head.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="left-nav-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/leftnav.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="foot-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/foot.jsp" />
</definition>

<definition name="SampleValidation" extends="example">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Hello Tile" />
</definition>

</tiles-definitions>

JSP's
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Create a jsp for each panel - body,head,left and foot.
Create a layout.jsp where the layout of the page is defined.

layout.jsp:
===========

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="tiles" uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" %>

<html>
<head><title>OPM</title></head>

<body>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="head-tile"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="left-nav-tile"/>
</td>
<td width="75%">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="body-tile"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="foot-tile"/>
</td>
</tr>

</table>
</body>

</html>

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Thanks Tauri.

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Let me know if you have any issues.

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I have been trying to find a good example of using Tiles as well. When I try and include the tag library:

<%@ taglib prefix="tiles" uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"%>

I get an error saying it cannot be found. I am using the Eclipse IDE. Perhaps there is something that I am missing?

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Nevermind I figured it out. I forgot to include the appropriate .jar file.

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Good job on getting this to work, there's not a lot of good examples on making Tiles2 working with Spring2.5+.

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Thanks Johnny. Im also trying to get the menus working with spring mvc.
Im trying to use menu-config to configure menus. Earlier I did it in struts long back, if you have any example please share with me.

I will complete it and show the complete example of Menus with Spring MVC here soon.

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Hi,

Has anyone tried with velocity?

I have a requirement to implement the composite view pattern with velocity templates. From where I have reached so far it appears I will have to extend a few classes from tiles-core, and may be spring framework too. But in case it is possible to get things working without that Please do let me know the solution.

Anadi Mishra.

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Hi,

Found a project that solved my worries

Spring-Tiles2-Velcoity

and lot of time too.

Anadi Mishra.

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Originally posted by Tauri Valor:
Here it goes..

<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"<DTDURL>/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>


<definition name="head-tile" path="/ui/head.jsp"/>
<definition name="left-nav-tile" path="/ui/leftnav.jsp"/>
<definition name="body-tile" path="/ui/body.jsp"/>
<definition name="foot-tile" path="/ui/foot.jsp"/>

<definition name="example" template="/WEB-INF/ui/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="body-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/body.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="head-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/head.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="left-nav-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/leftnav.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="foot-tile" type="template" value="/WEB-INF/ui/foot.jsp" />
</definition>

<definition name="SampleValidation" extends="example">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Hello Tile" />
</definition>

</tiles-definitions>

I take it the URL that you are pointing to display the page in the example you give here would be "SampleValidation"?

I'm trying to wrap my mind around what is going on here. I've used Tiles before but I've used the Struts framework with it and not Spring (yet.)

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Peter, fyi, this thread seems to be a couple months old, and it might not get a reply from the OP. It might be better to just ask your question in a new thread.

Good Luck

Mark

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