[TREQ-17] Implement a Strategy pattern for locating ApplicationResources

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nicolas LE BAS
• Created: 13/Aug/12 13:29
• Updated: 20/May/13 08:17

Description

Tiles Request is not extensible enough when it comes to resource loading. We have some code to get resources from the ServletContext, from the Classpath, from Spring, but all of these are excluding each other because of the way it is implemented, and in some situation the code is duplicated.

We should use a new interface to locate ApplicationResources, and the ApplicationContext could delegate getResources() to a collection of ResourceLocators.