I am not sure but I am circling with different exception with little progress.
Let me start over, I have netbean project which has NB struts 2 plugin and this nb plugin has 2.3.15 as base library. I downloaded struts 2.3.15 all zip from struts 2 apache site and installed struts 2 spring plugin. This integration(Struts 2 + Spring) works fine and no issues so far. I understand that this downloaded package(2.3.15 all zip) has plugins and their dependent jars bundled in the download. Now I want to integrate tiles 3 with my project, so I add tiles 3 struts 2 plugin jar, Tiles Extra 3.0.1 jar, Tiles core 2.0.6 jar and tiles jsp 2.0.6 jars then I add the listener to the web xml. <listener> <listener-class>org.apache.tiles.extras.complete.CompleteAutoloadTilesListener</listener-class> </listener> But this set up starts complaining and gives me below exception,, SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class org.apache.tiles.extras.complete.CompleteAutoloadTilesListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tiles/web/startup/AbstractTilesListener at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:2957) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1210) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1690) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:506) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:488) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:115) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4909) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5492) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:649) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:672) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:547) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1668) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor35.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:301) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:801) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1480) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:882) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:368) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:620) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:612) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:421) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1070) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2466) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2455) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tiles.web.startup.AbstractTilesListener at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1720) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1571) ... 54 more On further investigation, I can see that org.apache.tiles.web.startup.AbstractTilesListener is not present tiles core 2.0.6 jar. Now I do not understand do strut 2.3.15 has all correct dependencies bundled for download or they are is some mismatch.Is this tiles core 2.0.6 correct jar or I need to add tiles core 3.0.1 from tiles package. I checked maven dependencies and I think I am not doing any thing wrong. Any other thoughts ? Ken, I followed the link direction at least thrice but still same issue . On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Ken McWilliams <ken.mcwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > The steps for integration from scratch is here(useful to understand what > the plugin is doing exactly): > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13337938/how-to-integrate-struts-2-with-tiles-3 > The steps assume maven. > Of further use regarding tiles3 integration this may also be useful: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16116142/how-to-integrate-struts-conventions-with-tiles-such-that-the-benefit-of-conventi > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org> wrote: > > > thanks Chris, Makes Sense. > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Christoph Nenning < > > christoph.nenn...@lex-com.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Lukasz > > > > > > > > I downloaded complete struts 2.3.15 package which contains all jars > and > > > > have put everything under app /web inf lib folder. Then I removed > tiles > > > 2 > > > > plugin jar. Is this not suppose to work > > > > > > > > But I do believe more of version mismatch but not sure which jar let > me > > > > check again > > > > > > > > > > > > > In such cases I setup a small maven project just to download the jars > and > > > copy them to my real project. > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Christoph > > > > > > This Email was scanned by Sophos Anti Virus > > > > > >