Added by roman danilin, last edited by roman danilin on Feb 27, 2008
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Step 1. Update your web application configuration (web.xml)
<context-param>
<description>Tiles configuration file</description>
<param-name>
org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG
</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/tiles.xml, /WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>tiles_dispatch</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.tiles.web.util.TilesDispatchServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>tiles_dispatch</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.tiles</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Step 2. Add tiles.xml in your web application archive (WAR)
Place Tiles configuration to /WEB-INF or /WEB-INF/classes.
tiles.xml example:
<?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="test" template="index.jsp"> </definition> </tiles-definitions>
Step 3. Place your "index.jsp" in root of WAR archive.
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <!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>Test page</title> </head> <body> <h3>Success...</h3> </body> </html>
Step 4. Copy Tiles libraries.
Copy Tiles libraries to WEB-INF/lib (tiles-.jar and common-.jar).
Step 5. Create and deploy your WAR archive.
Run web application in web container (like Tomcat) and navigate url http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/test.tiles