Here's what I've done:
* Ensured Tiles is enabled in struts-conf.xml (it was by default):
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
<set-property property="definitions-config"
value="/WEB-INF/conf/tiles-defs.xml" />
<set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
<set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" />
</plug-in>* added a tile definition to teils-defs.xml:
<definition name="tiles.view">
<put name="title" value="PAGE TITLE"/>
<put name="content" value="/tiles-test/index.jsp"/>
</definition>* added an action mapping to struts-conf.xml pointing to the tile:
<action path="/tiles"
type="DummyTilesAction">
<forward name="view" path="tiles.view"/>
</action>* created /tiles-test/index.jsp with some static text content
What I expected was that when I hit /tiles.do I'd get back the static content from /tiles-test/index.jsp. What I actually get back is the string '<html><body></body></html>', which I haven't defined anywhere.
I also tried implementing execute() in DummyTilesAction to do a 'return mappings.findForward("view");' but no luck. Changing the name of the view in struts-conf.xml or tiles-defs.xml makes no difference, and generates no error messages when they don't match, which makes me suspicious...
The tiles defs do seem to be read in on startup:
L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:47,801 DEBUG org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet default factory:{tiles.layout.basic={name=tiles.layout.basic, path=/tiles.layout.basic.jsp, role=null, controller=null, controllerType=null, controllerInstance=null, attributes={title=DEFAULT TITLE, content=/tiles.content.default.jsp, menu=/tiles.layout.basic.menu.jsp}}
, tiles.view={name=tiles.view, path=null, role=null, controller=null, controllerType=null, controllerInstance=null, attributes={title=PAGE TITLE, content=/tiles-test/index.jsp}}
}
L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:48,065 DEBUG org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet Factory initialized from file '/WEB-INF/conf/tiles-defs.xml'.
L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:48,065 INFO org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
and the action mapping was picked up correctly; when I hit /tiles.do I get this logged:
L4J 2004-03-15 19:25:49,791 DEBUG org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor Looking for Action instance for class DummyTilesAction
But no Tiles related logging, and the page specified in the tile definition isn't loaded. The taglib documentation at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-tiles.html says that I have to call initComponentDefinitions or otherwise arrange to have Tiles initialized. I thought the configuration in struts-conf.xml would make that happen, but tried calling the tag in case. That didn't seem to help.
What am I doing wrong? If I've left any information out, please ask and I'll post it.
Thanks,
L.
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