Firstly I know that Spring MVC has good integration with Tiles. But my problem is as below:
I have configured my web.xml as
<servlet>
<description>Spring Dispatcher Servlet</description>
<servlet-name>Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
And my Dispatcher-servlet.xml is configured as below:
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>
/WEB-INF/tiles-defs/base-layout.xml
</value>
<value>
/WEB-INF/tiles-defs/application-layout.xml
</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesViewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
<property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>
Please Note that Dispatcher servlet is mapped to handle all requests. I don't want to configure it in way, such that it can handle only specif requests, say for example *.hmtl or *.do or *.form because i want my URL to be neat, that's a requirement.
I have tiles definition as below
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="publicLayout" .
template="/WEB-INF/tiles-layouts/publicLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Home Page" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="" />
</definition>
<definition name="home" extends="publicLayout">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
Now when i make a HTTP request to say a URL "http://localhost:8080/myapp/home", a annotated controller mapped with request-mapping "/home" handles the request and finally returns a ModelAndView with view name "home".
Finally when dispatcher servlet tries to render the page it says
No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/myapp/WEB-INF/tiles-layouts/publicLayout.jsp]
But when i change my dispatcher servlet mapping such that *.html, its working fine, which i don't want to do.
What can be done here.?? i think its a very common problem.
