tiles2 fails to initialize

[jjunos]

I know this is a general question, but does anyone know of a clear tutorial on how to set up a Spring2.5 / tiles2 setup?

my problem, I try to deploy my war file and when it gets to initilizing the tiles2 container:

INFO: Initializing Tiles2 container. . .
SEVERE: Context initialization failed

then I get an exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tilesConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/app-servlet.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.apache.tiles.definition.DefinitionsFactoryException: I/O Error reading definitions.
	at

my app-servlet.xml file defines the tileconfiger as such:

<bean id="urlMapping" 
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    
	<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
    <property name="definitions">
      <list>
        <value>/WEB-INF/defs/tiles-def.xml</value>
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>

	<bean id="viewResolver" 
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="requestContextAttribute" value="requestContext"/>
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>      
  </bean>

The weird thing is, it was working (well I couldn't get my tiles example to work, but at least it wasn't dying on me) a few days ago, but now I can't seem to get tiles2 to initialize. Anyone got any idea?

JOhn

[Marten Deinum]

Well your exception should tell you something and actually it does.

org.apache.tiles.definition.DefinitionsFactoryException: I/O Error reading definitions.

So this either means the file isn't at the location where it is supposed to be or your file is screwed and it has an illegal format.

[jjunos]

the tiles-def.xml file?

It is there, and it's pretty simple...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
       "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN"
       "<tiles 1-1 url>">
<tiles-definitions>

  	<definition name="head-tile" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/tiles/header.jsp"/>
 
  <definition name="testlayout" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/template/template.jsp">
  	<put name="title" value="default title" type="string"/> 
  	<put name="header" value="head-tile"/>
  </definition>
  
</tiles-definitions>

nothing jumping out at me...

[kdburke]

I think you are trying to use the Tiles 1 DTD, not the Tiles 2 DTD.

You need to update your XML headers to reference tiles-config_2_0.dtd. Replace <DTDURL> with your location for your DTDs or use tiles.apache.org/dtd/tiles-config_2_0.dtd

(I can't post URLs due to some server restriction)

Try using this header:

<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
	        "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
                "<DTDURL>/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

Regards,

Kevin

[jjunos]

Yeah, kevin you hit that one on the head. I can't be 100% sure if that solved the issue or not (I ended up doing massive changes to the file), but that was indeed a big bug on my part.

thanks for the help!