How to point tiles.xml from web.xml

Question

I'm new to struts2,In fact new to web application development just started developing a sample application. Currently I'm using struts tiles concept in my project. Here is how I am referring to tiles.xml in my application.

 <listener>
            <listener-class>
                org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener
            </listener-class>
    </listener>
    <context-param>
            <param-name>tilesDefinitions</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

I'd like to place tiles.xml to resources folder of application, despite of placing it inside web-inf folder. How can I refer to that in web.xml.

Answer 1

Moving configuration files from their original location is something dangerous, and shold be examined case by case.

But usually you can use a trick: place a stub xml configuration file in the place where it is expected to be, that contains only the include of the real file, located out of the WEB-INF (or inside it but in another location):

<struts>
   <include file="..\struts.xml"/>
</struts>

As described here: http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/struts-1-solutions.html

For properties it's harder... be careful