[TILES-350] Geronimo v2.1 Requires DispatchServlet to Bootstrap Tiles 2.0.7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: tiles-servlet

Environment

Geronimo v2.1, Tiles 2.0.7

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rick Carback
• Created: 14/Jan/09 14:41
• Updated: 14/Jan/09 16:21
• Resolved: 14/Jan/09 16:21

Description

See thread:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tiles-users/200901.mbox/[e-mail]%3E

I was playing around with the
tutorial example, and I kept getting "javax.servlet.jsp.JspException:
TilesContainer not initialized." I've got it working (by opening up
the sample .war file that comes with tiles, and copy and pasting
things around until I got something working then removing things until
I got it to break again), but I want to know why this worked. I
originally had followed the tutorial here:

http://tiles.apache.org/2.0/framework/tutorial/basic/pages.html

It was my understanding that my web.xml needed to include something
like this to get tiles to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID"
version="2.5">
<display-name>my-tiles-test</display-name>

<!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>definitions-config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml,/org/apache/tiles/classpath-defs.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
</web-app>

Doing that, I got the javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: TilesContainer
not initialized error, and the only thing relevant I found in the list
archives was:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tiles-users/200802.mbox/[e-mail]%3E

Looked into the jar, verified that the path was right. Then I tried
the .war file, and it worked, so I then proceeded as mentioned
earlier. I ended up fixing it with this web.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID"
version="2.5">
<display-name>my-tiles-test</display-name>

<!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>definitions-config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml,/org/apache/tiles/classpath-defs.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Tiles Dispatch Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.util.TilesDispatchServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Tiles Dispatch Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.tiles</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>