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TilesConfigurer()

Helper class to configure Tiles 3.x for the Spring Framework. See http://tiles.apache.org for more information about Tiles, which basically is a templating mechanism for web applications using JSPs and other template engines.

The TilesConfigurer simply configures a TilesContainer using a set of files containing definitions, to be accessed by TilesView instances. This is a Spring-based alternative (for usage in Spring configuration) to the Tiles-provided ServletContextListener (e.g. org.apache.tiles.extras.complete.CompleteAutoloadTilesListener for usage in web.xml.

TilesViews can be managed by any org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver. For simple convention-based view resolution, consider using TilesViewResolver.

A typical TilesConfigurer bean definition looks as follows:

 <bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer"> <property name="definitions"> <list> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/general.xml</value> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/widgets.xml</value> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/administrator.xml</value> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/customer.xml</value> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/templates.xml</value> </list> </property> </bean>

The values in the list are the actual Tiles XML files containing the definitions. If the list is not specified, the default is "/WEB-INF/tiles.xml".

Note that in Tiles 3 an underscore in the name of a file containing Tiles definitions is used to indicate locale information, for example:

 <bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer"> <property name="definitions"> <list> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/tiles.xml</value> <value>/WEB-INF/defs/tiles_fr_FR.xml</value> </list> </property> </bean>

Author
mick semb wever

Author
Rossen Stoyanchev

Author
Juergen Hoeller

Since
3.2

See Also
TilesViewTilesViewResolver