Hi, I am Unable to get tiles to work in my application . I am using Struts 1.3 , stuts-tiles-1.3.10.jar is in the lib folder I am building this application on top of struts-blank.war
The struts-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd"> <!-- This is a blank Struts configuration file with an example welcome action/page and other commented sample elements. Struts Validator is configured using the factory defaults and is ready-to-use. NOTE: If you have a generator tool to create the corresponding Java classes for you, you could include the details in the "form-bean" declarations. Otherwise, you would only define the "form-bean" element itself, with the corresponding "name" and "type" attributes, as shown here. --> <struts-config> <!-- ================================================ Form Bean Definitions --> <form-beans> <form-bean name="searchForm" type="com.jamesholmes.minihr.SearchForm"/> <!-- sample form bean descriptor for an ActionForm <form-bean name="inputForm" type="app.InputForm"/> end sample --> <!-- sample form bean descriptor for a DynaActionForm <form-bean name="logonForm" type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm"> <form-property name="username" type="java.lang.String"/> <form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String"/> </form-bean> end sample --> </form-beans> <!-- ========================================= Global Exception Definitions --> <global-exceptions> <!-- sample exception handler <exception key="expired.password" type="app.ExpiredPasswordException" path="/changePassword.jsp"/> end sample --> </global-exceptions> <!-- =========================================== Global Forward Definitions --> <global-forwards> <!-- Default forward to "Welcome" action --> <!-- Demonstrates using index.jsp to forward --> <forward name="welcome" path="/Welcome.do"/> <forward name="search" path="search.page"/> </global-forwards> <!-- =========================================== Action Mapping Definitions --> <action-mappings> <!-- Default "Welcome" action --> <!-- Forwards to Welcome.jsp --> <action path="/Welcome" forward="/pages/Welcome.jsp"/> <action path="/viewSearch" type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="search.page"/> <action path="/search" type="com.jamesholmes.minihr.SearchAction" name="searchForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="search.page"> </action> <!-- sample input and input submit actions <action path="/Input" type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" parameter="/pages/Input.jsp"/> <action path="/InputSubmit" type="app.InputAction" name="inputForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="/pages/Input.jsp"/> <action path="/edit*" type="app.Edit{1}Action" name="inputForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="/pages/Edit{1}.jsp"/> end samples --> </action-mappings> <!-- ======================================== Message Resources Definitions --> <message-resources parameter="MessageResources" /> <!-- =================================================== Validator plugin --> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn"> <set-property property="pathnames" value="/org/apache/struts/validator/validator-rules.xml, /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/> </plug-in> <!-- Tiles Configuration --> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" > <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" /> <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" /> <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" /> </plug-in> </struts-config> tiles-defs.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_1_3.dtd"> <!-- This is a blank Tiles definition file with a commented example. --> <tiles-definitions> <!-- sample tiles definitions <definition name=".mainLayout" path="/common/layouts/classicLayout.jsp"> <put name="title" value="Sample Page Title" /> <put name="header" value="/common/header.jsp" /> <put name="menu" value=".mainMenu" /> <put name="footer" value="/common/footer.jsp" /> <put name="body" value=".portal.body" /> </definition> <definition name=".mainMenu" path="/common/layouts/vboxLayout.jsp" > <putList name="list" > <add value=".menu.links" /> <add value=".menu.taglib.references" /> <add value=".menu.printer.friendly" /> <add value=".menu.old.documents" /> </putList> </definition> <definition name="aPage" extends=".mainLayout"> <put name="title" value="Another Title" /> <put name="body" value=".aPage.body" /> </definition> end samples --> <definition name="baseLayout" path="/mainLayout.jsp"> <put name="title" value="" /> <put name="header" value="/header.jsp" /> <put name="body" value="" /> <put name="footer" value="/footer.jsp" /> </definition> <definition name="search.page" extends="baseLayout"> <put name="title" value="Search Page" /> <put name="body" value="/searchBody.jsp" /> </definition> </tiles-definitions> I am not sure if tiles is being intialized properly this is all i get in tomcat console regarding tiles Jan 8, 2013 10:24:11 PM org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin initDefinitionsFactory INFO: Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''. I guess something more should appear right ? on accessing the application a forward action throws the following exception WARNING: Unhandled exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path search.page does not start with a "/" character at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getRequestDispatcher(ApplicationContext.java:431) Have I missed something please help