I finally got my views rendering correctly. I thought I'd document my solution here to help folks in the future.
I got my pages to render correctly using the the view handler code found at the shale site http://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/SHALE-302. I am using the view handler code attached to the issue only. I am not using shale. The JspTilesTwoViewHandlerImpl from tomahawk did not work well for my application. Tags with JSP el expressions, <tiles:insertTemplate template="${sessionScope['ViewBeanManager'].toolbarUiPath}" />, did not work in my application until I updated my web.xml file to use the new JSP version 2.4 schema definition. I am using Jboss 4.2.2 as my application server. Specifically I updated my web.xml file from. <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";> <web-app> .... </web-app> To <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"; version="2.4"> ... </web-app>
