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• Supports Tiles in Freemarker, JSP, and Velocity
• Provides annotations to keep tiles.xml short and put definitons into actions

Usage

The following steps must be taken in order to enable tiles support within your Struts2 application:

1. Include the struts-tiles-plugin as a dependency in your web application. If you are using maven2, the dependency configuration will be similar to:

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   xml xml
   <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts2-tiles-plugin</artifactId> <version>${version.tiles}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency>

2. Register the tiles listener. This listener will typically either be the standard tiles listener (org.apache.tiles.listener.TilesListener) or the Struts2 replacement (org.apache.struts2.tiles.TilesListener). The latter provides tighter integration with Struts features such as freemarker integration.

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   xml xml
   <listener> <listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</listener-class> </listener>

3. All package definitions which require tiles support must either extend the tiles-default package or must register the Tiles Result type definition.

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   xml xml
   <result-types> <result-type name="tiles" class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult"/> </result-types>

4. Configure your actions to utilize a tiles definition:

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   xml xml
   <action name="sample" class="org.apache.struts2.tiles.example.SampleAction" > <result name="success" type="tiles">tilesWorks</result> </action>

5. Instead of xml configuration you can use annotations

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   language java
   @Result(name = "success", type="tiles") @TilesDefinition(extend = "fooLayout", putAttributes = { @TilesPutAttribute(name = "header", value = "/WEB-INF/tiles/header.jsp"), @TilesPutAttribute(name = "body", value = "/WEB-INF/tiles/body.ftl") }) public class FooAction extends ActionSupport {

6. You have to define Tiles Definitons in a tiles.xml file. That can be placed in resources or in WEB-INF.

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   language xml
   <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 3.0//EN" "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_3_0.dtd"> <tiles-definitions> <definition name="fooLayout" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/layout.jsp"> <put-attribute name="title" value="Tiles Sample"/> <put-attribute name="header" value=".header"/> <put-attribute name="body" value=".bodyp"/> </definition> <definition name="tilesWorks" extends="fooLayout"> <put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/header.jsp"/> <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/body.jsp"/> </definition> </tiles-definitions>

Example

This example shows a Tiles layout page using Struts tags:

{snippet:url=struts2/apps/showcase/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/tiles/layout.jsp|lang=xml}

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