Tiles definitions factory not found: TilesConfigurer not defined?

[rhill206]

I'm trying to upgrade from webflow 1.0.5 to 2.0.2 and I'm having some difficulty getting the new TilesConfigurer setup properly. Below is my attempt on upgrading my app-servlet.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-2.0.xsd">
           

	<bean name="/bca.lsw" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController">
	    <property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor"/>
	    <property name="flowUrlHandler">
	        <bean class="org.springframework.webflow.context.servlet.WebFlow1FlowUrlHandler"/>
	    </property>
	</bean> 

	<webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor" />	
	
	<webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices">
		<webflow:flow-location-pattern value="/WEB-INF/flows/*-flow.xml" />	    
	</webflow:flow-registry>	         

	<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices" view-factory-creator="mvcViewFactoryCreator"/>
	
	<bean id="mvcViewFactoryCreator" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
	    <property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver"/>
	</bean>    
	
	<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
	    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesJstlView"/>
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="tilesConfigurer"  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
		<property name="definitions">
			<list>
				<value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>	   	
</beans>

The exception thrown caused by: Tiles definitions factory not found: TilesConfigurer not defined?

[DEBUG] low.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl  :  58 : Getting FlowDefinition with id 'welcome-flow'
[DEBUG] ingframework.webflow.engine.impl.FlowExecutionImpl  : 252 : Resuming execution in org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.MvcExternalContext@133b16a
[DEBUG] ingframework.webflow.engine.impl.FlowExecutionImpl  : 577 : Attempting to handle [org.springframework.webflow.execution.FlowExecutionException: Exception thrown in state 'welcomePage' of flow 'welcome-flow'] with root cause [org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Tiles definitions factory not found: TilesConfigurer not defined?]
[DEBUG] ingframework.webflow.engine.impl.FlowExecutionImpl  : 594 : Rethrowing unhandled flow execution exception
[DEBUG] onversation.impl.SessionBindingConversationManager  :  99 : Unlocking conversation 1
[DEBUG] org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet   : 540 : Could not complete request
org.springframework.webflow.execution.FlowExecutionException: Exception thrown in state 'welcomePage' of flow 'welcome-flow'
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.impl.FlowExecutionImpl.wrap(FlowExecutionImpl.java:557)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.impl.FlowExecutionImpl.resume(FlowExecutionImpl.java:265)
	at org.springframework.webflow.executor.FlowExecutorImpl.resumeExecution(FlowExecutorImpl.java:153)
	at org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter.handle(FlowHandlerAdapter.java:173)
	at org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController.handleRequest(FlowController.java:172)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:875)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:809)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:523)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:453)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)

Below is the view-state in the welcome-flow.xml

<view-state id="welcomePage" view="welcome"/>

"welcome" is defined in the tiles-defs.xml

<definition name="welcome" extends="template_basic">
    <put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp"/>
</definition>

Any help pointing out what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

[rhill206]

I updated the view class to "tiles2.TilesView" and got past the error

<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBas edViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2 .TilesView"/>
</bean>

[jaggernat]

thank you so much for posting the solution, i almost gave up on this and then saw your solution and it works nicely now. Great job.