[WW-4594] Configure TilesDefs by annotating Actions

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: Plugin - Tiles
• Assignee: Christoph Nenning
• Reporter: Christoph Nenning
• Created: 21/Jan/16 13:04
• Updated: 12/Oct/16 14:27
• Resolved: 03/Feb/16 10:01

Description

Large applications often consist of hundrets of actions. IMO it is a major benefit of struts-convention-plugin that it is not necessary to configure all those actions in xml files. As xml files would become huge and hard to maintain. The same applies to tiles xml files. Currently it is necessary to configure tiles-definitions for all those actions in xml files which makes them huge and hard to maintain.

It would be great if configuration of tiles-definitions could be done by annotating actions, in a similar way actions can be configured with annotations from convention-plugin.

This somewhat relates to WW-3937 and WW-4161

Issue Links

• blocks: WW-4606 Backport @TilesDefinition to struts 2.3 and tiles 2
• relates to: WW-4161 Incorporate tiles3 into conventions, tutorial (and add code to tiles3 plugin)
• relates to: WW-3937 The annotation @Result can have an extra attribute to hold tiles attributes