not sure if this is what you want but this one should work:
global forward is defined as, fot example: <forward name="authorizationError" path=".authorizationError" redirect="true"/> the ".authorizationError" is defined as a Tile: <definition name=".authorizationError" extends=".baseDef"> <put name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/menu/menu.jsp"/> <put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/pages/authorizationError.jsp"/> </definition> in your action class, you can do this: return mapping.findForward("authorizationError");