Java, Spring, Apache Tiles error : Could not resolve view with name 'index' in servlet with name 'dispatcher'

Question

I\'m new to Tiles and Spring MVC (I looked through several similar issues but found no solution for \'my problem\')

controller:

@Controller
public cl         


        

Answer 1

The problem is extremely simple. Replace your web.xml with

<?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" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">
  <display-name>my-first-app</display-name>


  <servlet>
        <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>
</web-app>

I also added a jstl dependency to the pom

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>

After these changes, a request to localhost:8080/index correctly renders the appropriate response

Answer 2

The problem lies in the project location.

A combination of jetty, apache tiles and spring's view resolver does not work when there is a space in the location.

For ex : a project location - D:\folder whitespace\your_project will throw the above error -Could not resolve view with name 'index' in servlet with name 'dispatcher'

Solution - Please change your project location to a path with no space in it.

Answer 3

There's probably a whitespace in your project's path:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAYjZnykalg

Answer 4

I've had the same issue . Try using correct version of DTD in tiles configuration file.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28854479

Also in your tiles definition file general.xml use tile:insertAttribute instead of tile:addAttribute

<tile:insertAttribute name="body"/>
     <br />
<tile:insertAttribute name="footer" />

Answer 5

Try to change the return value of IndexController.index() from "/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp" to "index". This works for me:

@RequestMapping("/index")
public String index() {
    return "index";
}

Answer 6

I've had the same issue today. I am also new at Spring so I didn't know where to start. After a long day I managed to find the answer:

My default.xml file was wrong. I had done some manual refactoring and that caused all the trouble. This is an example of what was wrong:

<definition name="tos.base" template="/WEB-INF/templates/default.jsp">
<put-attribute name="includes" value="" ></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="title" value="Title" ></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/header.jsp"></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/content.jsp"></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/footer.jsp"></put-attribute>
</definition>

<definition name="home" extends="tos.base">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Homepage" ></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/home.jsp"></put-attribute>
</definition>

<definition name="current" extends="to.base">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Current" ></put-attribute>
<put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/current.jsp"></put-attribute>
</definition>

As you can see I had the wrong value in the last definition "extends" value. I discovered this downgrading from tiles3.TilesViewResolver to tiles2.TilesViewResolver and that provided a more helpful error message.