[WW-4786] Upgrade from struts2-tiles3-plugin to struts2-tiles-plugin gives a NoSuchDefinitionException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.10
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.12
• Component/s: Plugin - Tiles

Environment

• Java 8
• Tested with Tomcat Versions 6.0.47, 7.0.72 and 9.0.0.M13
• Windows 10

• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Ralph Wetter
• Created: 17/Apr/17 12:24
• Updated: 13/Jul/17 19:28
• Resolved: 19/Apr/17 07:40

Description

When upgrading from struts2-tiles3-plugin to struts2-tiles-plugin
(corresponding to https://struts.apache.org/docs/tiles-plugin.html)
tiles3 is not working anymore. It provides a NoSuchDefinitionException.
This behaviour only appears on Windows-Systems. On Linux the same Application (same sourcecode, same Java, same Tomcat) is just working fine.

Workaround:
There is an easy workaround. On Windows 10 the struts2-tiles-plugin is working fine when defining the config by hand.

<context-param>
<param-bame>org.apache.tiles.definition.DefinitionsFactory.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/tiles-1.xml,
/WEB-INF/tiles-2.xml,
/WEB-INF/tiles-3.xml,
/WEB-INF/tiles-4.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>