Uh didn't you solve the problem? 2011/8/12 Aditya Saraf <[email protected]>
> Hi, > > I am trying to get the tiles definitions to work within folder. They seem > to > be working on all root level files, but not inside folders. I am using the > BasicTilesContainer configuration with a tiles.xml file in the WEB-INF > folder. My error is as follows. > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > org.apache.tiles.template.InsertDefinitionModel.start(InsertDefinitionModel.java:74) > > org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.InsertDefinitionTag.doTag(InsertDefinitionTag.java:276) > > After attaching the source, I see that the line 217 in > org.apache.tiles.jsp.context.JspUtil.java calls getContainer(). Which in > turn calls an overloaded method of getContainer() on line 127 in the same > class. On line 127, I notice the following. > > (TilesContainer) context.getAttribute(key,PageContext.*APPLICATION_SCOPE*); > > I am suspecting that key is not being set or the attribute cannot be > retrieved given the appropriate key. They key should be set to > TilesAccess.CONTAINER_ATTRIBUTE. I guess someting in my Tomcat context is > not configured properly for this to not return the proper Tiles Container. > My web.xml looks like this > > <servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name> > org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG > </param-name> > <param-value> > /WEB-INF/tiles.xml > </param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > Do I need to specify some sort of a context param for the container to be > initialized and returned correctly? Please let me know. > > > Thanks, > Adi Saraf >
