Tiles is a templating framework designed to easily allow the creation of web application pages with a consistent look and feel. It can be used for both page decorating and componentization.
The Tiles plugin allows actions to return Tiles pages.
Step 1: Maven dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts2-tiles-plugin</artifactId> <version>${version.tiles}</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency>
Step 2: Add listener in web.xml
<listener> <listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</listener-class> </listener>
Step 3: Add restult type in struts.xml
<result-types> <result-type name="tiles" class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult"/> </result-types>
Step 4: Add a type attribute in result tag
<action name="sample" class="org.apache.struts2.tiles.example.SampleAction" > <result name="success" type="tiles">tilesWorks</result> </action>
Complete Code
index.jsp
<%
response.sendRedirect("welcomeLink.action");
%>
baselayout.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title><tiles:insertAttribute name="title" ignore="true" /></title> </head> <body> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" align="center"> <tr> <td height="30" colspan="2"><tiles:insertAttribute name="header" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="250"><tiles:insertAttribute name="menu" /></td> <td width="350"><tiles:insertAttribute name="body" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="30" colspan="2"><tiles:insertAttribute name="footer" /> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%> <a href="<s:url action="friendsLink"/>" >Friends</a><br> <a href="<s:url action="officeLink"/>" >The Office</a><br>
<p> sample body content.</p>
<div align="center">© candidjava.com</div>
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>JSP Page</title> </head> <body> <p>More details about the Friends TV show goes here...</p> </body> </html>
<div align="center" style="font-weight:bold">TV shows</div>
<?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>Struts2Example15</display-name> <context-param> <param-name>org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</listener-class> </listener> <filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter </filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>
tiles.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/baseLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Template"/>
<put-attribute name="header" value="/header.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/menu.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/body.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="welcome" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Welcome"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/welcome.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="friends" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Friends"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/friends.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="office" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Office"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/office.jsp"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
struts.xml
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles" class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
</result-types>
<action name="*Link" method="{1}" class="com.candidjava.struts.LinkAction">
<result name="welcome" type="tiles">welcome</result>
<result name="friends" type="tiles">friends</result>
<result name="office" type="tiles">office</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>
LinkAction.java
package com.candidjava.struts; import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport; public class LinkAction extends ActionSupport { public String welcome() { return "welcome"; } public String friends() { return "friends"; } public String office() { return "office"; } }
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