I'm using tiles 2.0.7 with geronimo 2.1. I was playing around with the tutorial example, and I kept getting "javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: TilesContainer not initialized." I've got it working (by opening up the sample .war file that comes with tiles, and copy and pasting things around until I got something working then removing things until I got it to break again), but I want to know why this worked. I originally had followed the tutorial here:
http://tiles.apache.org/2.0/framework/tutorial/basic/pages.html It was my understanding that my web.xml needed to include something like this to get tiles to work: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"; xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"; id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"> <display-name>my-tiles-test</display-name> <!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration --> <servlet> <servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>definitions-config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml,/org/apache/tiles/classpath-defs.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> </web-app> Doing that, I got the javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: TilesContainer not initialized error, and the only thing relevant I found in the list archives was: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tiles-users/200802.mbox/%[email protected]%3e Looked into the jar, verified that the path was right. Then I tried the .war file, and it worked, so I then proceeded as mentioned earlier. I ended up fixing it with this web.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"; xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"; id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"> <display-name>my-tiles-test</display-name> <!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration --> <servlet> <servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>definitions-config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml,/org/apache/tiles/classpath-defs.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet> <servlet-name>Tiles Dispatch Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.util.TilesDispatchServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Tiles Dispatch Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.tiles</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> I'm new to this, so it might be obvious, but any ideas why this works and what the tutorial says doesn't? If you remove any of the <servlet> or <servlet-mapping> statements, it comes back with the loading error. -R
