Using Velocity with Tiles and Spring

Question

I'm presently using Spring 3.0.4 and Apache Tiles 2.2.2 in my web app. I'd like to replace JSP with Apache Velocity 1.6.3 but I'm somewhat confused on how to do this. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to do the following in a Tiles definition:

<definition name="basicLayout" template="/WEB-INF/layout/basicLayout.vm">
    <put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/layout/header.vm" />
    <put-attribute name="content-area" value="/WEB-INF/layout/content.vm" />
    <put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/layout/footer.vm" />
</definition>

Is this possible? If so, do I need to create any custom view classes to support it? I'm currently using the standard Spring VelocityConfigurer, TilesConfigurer, VelocityView, TilesView classes.

Thanks!

Have you seen section 16.4 of the spring reference documentation? http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/view.html — iftheshoefritz, Nov 25 '10 at 20:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '11 at 10:23

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I've created helper classes which include tiles integration with velocity: https://github.com/pete911/openhouse-web there's a descritption when you scroll down. classes can be found in maven central as well.

answered May 25 '11 at 10:23

pete911

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '11 at 14:51

inside your servlet definition you need the following:

    <bean id="viewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass">
        <value>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView
    </value>
    </property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
    <property name="definitions">
        <list>
            <value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

as you can see you declare tiles.xml ..this is the file that will hold the definiotion name etc.

if you are using maven you need the following dependencies:

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

Using Velocity with Tiles and Spring

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