Spring with Tiles Tutorial

What is Apache Tiles? Tiles is a templating framework: you define page layouts once (header, menu, body, footer) and compose every page from reusable fragments called tiles. ...

Dependencies Why War Packaging Tiles renders JSPs, and JSPs need a real servlet container with file-based views. Package as <packaging>war</packaging> and deploy to Tomcat 9/10 ...

Java Config What Each Bean Does TilesConfigurer - loads definitions at startup; checkRefresh reloads XML without restart during development. TilesViewResolver - resolves logical ...

Base Definition Inheritance Wins home extends base and overrides only title and body. Twenty pages share one layout; each page is two lines of XML. put-attribute Flavours value - ...

layout.jsp insertAttribute vs getAsString insertAttribute - renders the attribute (JSP include or nested definition). getAsString - prints a string attribute (page titles). ...

Fragment JSPs header.jsp (logo plus login state), menu.jsp (nav links with active highlighting via page context), footer.jsp (copyright plus support links). Fragments are plain ...

One Rule for Many Pages Visiting the book/list definition renders book/list.jsp inside the base layout. Add list, form and show JSPs with zero extra XML. Controller Side ...

Why Boot 3 Breaks Tiles Executable jars cannot reliably serve JSPs (a Jasper limitation, not Spring). Spring Framework 6 removed TilesConfigurer and TilesViewResolver. Result: ...