Hi Xavier, looking at the error, it seems instead of looking at "formaction" attribute as String, it's attempting to interpret it as a Page, and it's not able to find the login.jsp in the 'document root' area.
If you need to pass in just a String value you may use type="String" or, direct="true" as part of the insert tag. i.e. <put type="String" name="formaction" value="login.jsp"/> or, <put name="formaction" value="login.jsp" direct="true" /> Alternatively in the JSP template/layout page you can use <tiles:getAsString name="formaction" /> instead of <tiles:insert page="formaction" /> HTH, Dharmendra ps: have a good day! -----Original Message----- From: Xavier Vanderstukken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:07 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Tile usage I have a main layout : <definition name="Main" path="/layout.jsp"> <put name="navbar" value="navigation.jsp"/> <put name="login" value="login.jsp"/> <put name="locale" value="locale.jsp"/> <put name="body" type="string"/> </definition> I extend the main definition : <definition name=".register" extends="Main"> <put name="body" value="ResultBased" type="definition"/> </definition> And finally here is the body <definition name="ResultBased"> <put name="formaction" value="login.jsp"/> <put name="display" value="sample.jsp"/> </definition> With that configuration I receive an exception : java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.getContextRelativePath(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:908) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:963) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.include(PageContextImpl.java:604) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtilImpl.doInclude(TilesUtilImpl.java:99) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtil.doInclude(TilesUtil.java:135) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doInclude(InsertTag.java:760) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:892) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:462) at org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_insert_2(org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp:205) at org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp._jspx_meth_html_html_0(org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp:125) at org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.layout_jsp:72) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:322) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:291) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1063) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:263) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processTilesDefinition(TilesRequestProcessor.java:239) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:341) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForward(RequestProcessor.java:560) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:209) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1194) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. 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