Steps
to Configure Tiles in Spring Application
Step 1: Add tiles Jars to lib folder
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/jsp/baselayout.jsp">
<put name="title" value="" />
<put name="header" value="/jsp/header.jsp" />
<put name="leftPannel" value="/jsp/leftPannel.jsp" />
<put name="body" value="" />
<put name="footer" value="/jsp/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="homepage" extends="baseLayout">
<put name="title" value="Welcome" />
<put name="body" value="/jsp/welcome.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="searchpage" extends="baseLayout">
<put name="title" value="Welcome" />
<put name="body" value="/jsp/searchpage.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
Step 3: Spring beans configuration
<!-- Configures the tiles defintions file -->
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tile/tiles-def.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- view mappings from localized classpath files -->
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value>
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesJstlView
</value>
</property>
</bean>
Step 4: Create baselayout.jsp and create all required jsp pages
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title><tiles:insert name="title" ignore="true" /></title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%" align="center">
<tr height="15%">
<td><tiles:insert name="header" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="75%">
<td>
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<TR>
<td height="80%" width="20%"><tiles:insert name="leftPannel" /></td>
<td width="80%">
<table>
<tr height="100%">
<td>
<tiles:insert name="body" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="10%">
<td><tiles:insert name="footer" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Step 5: Create & Return model and view object with tiles definition in controller class
return new ModelAndView("homepage");
Steps to Configure Tiles in Struts 2 Application
Step 1: Add tiles Jars to lib folder
Step 2: web.xml configuration
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>tilesDefinitions</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
Step 3: Struts 2 action configuration
<package name="default" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles"
class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
</result-types>
<action name="ajaxRequestForJsp">
<result name="success" type="tiles">/ajaxRequestForJsp</result>
</action>
</package>
Step 4: Create tiles.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/jsp/baselayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="" />
<put-attribute name="header" value="/jsp/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="leftPannel" value="/jsp/leftPannel.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="contentbody" value="" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/jsp/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="/ajaxRequestForJsp" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="contentbody" value="/jsp/ajaxJspResponse.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
Step 5: Create baselayout.jsp and create all required jsp pages
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link href="css/ajaxdemocss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="javascript/ajax_javascript.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="javascript/jquery-1.8.1.js"></SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%" align="center">
<tr height="15%">
<td><tiles:insertAttribute name="header" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="75%">
<td>
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<TR>
<td height="80%" width="10%"><tiles:insertAttribute name="leftPannel" /></td>
<td width="90%">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr height="70%"><td><tiles:insertAttribute name="contentbody" /></td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="10%">
<td><tiles:insertAttribute name="footer" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
