Spring 3 MVC and Apache Tiles 2 Integration Error

Question

I have been trying to integrate Spring (3.0.4 and 3.0.5) MVC with Apache Tiles (2.1.2,2.1.4 and 2.2.2) to no avail. In every case i get the following error:

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Answer 1

If you are using STS and you created your project using a spring template project (like the MVC one) then you don't add anything to the lib directory. Instead you modify the pom.xml maven config file.

Answer 2

I was having same problem, using version 2.2.2 of tiles. I switched to version 2.2.1 and it started to work. Here are my dependencies:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
        <artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
        <artifactId>tiles-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.1</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
        <artifactId>tiles-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.1</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
        <artifactId>tiles-servlet</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
        <artifactId>tiles-template</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.1</version>
    </dependency>

Answer 3

Check if the following jars are on the application class-path:

1. commons-beanutils
2. commons-digester
3. log4j
4. slf4j-api
5. slf4j-log4j12
6. tiles-api
7. tiles-core
8. tiles-jsp
9. tiles-servlet
10. tiles-template

Version of tiles jars is depends on the version of Spring MVC. E.g. If Spring MVC 3.2.3 (org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer) is used then tile 3 jars are required.