I am trying to integrate Tiles 2 with Spring MVC but I am getting a specific jsp displayed rather than Tiles View. For ex, If request="about.htm" then I am getting about.jsp which is kept at /jsp/about.jsp . It works as if view is getting resolved through UrlBasedViewResolver. My Spring-servlet.xml is
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.spring.controller" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources*" location="resources/"/>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
<bean id="TilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver" p:basename="views" />
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer" p:definitions="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />
<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.simple.SimpleJdbcTemplate">
<constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="loginDao" class="com.spring.dao.impl.LoginDaoImpl">
<property name="jdbcTemplate" ref="jdbcTemplate"/>
</bean>
views.properties kept under classes is
welcome.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
welcome.url=welcome
friends.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
friends.url=friends
office.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
office.url=office
about.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView
about.url=/jsp/about.jsp
tiles-defs.xml is
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/baseLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Template"/>
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/header.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/menu.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/body.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="welcome" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Welcome"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/jsp/welcome.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="friends" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Friends"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/jsp/friends.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="office" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Office"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/jsp/office.jsp"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
Please guide.
It could be a problem with the view resolver order, if you want to give priority to tiles view resolver then add order property for the view resolvers
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
<property name="order" value="2"/>
</bean>
<bean id="TilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver" p:basename="views" p:order="1"/>