org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles
Class TilesConfigurer

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport
      org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport
          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesConfigurer

All Implemented Interfaces:

ApplicationContextAware

public class TilesConfigurer

extends WebApplicationObjectSupport

Helper class to configure Tiles for the Spring Framework (see http://jakarta.apache.org/struts for more information about Tiles, which basically is a templating mechanism for JSP-based web applications).

The TilesConfigurer simply configures tiles using a set of files containing definitions. The rest is done by an appropriate Resolver which could for instance be the InternalResourceViewResolver or the ResourceBundleViewResolver. Usage of the TilesConfigurer is done as follows:

  <bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesConfigurer">
       <property name="definitions">
           <list>
               <value>/WEB-INF/defs/general.xml</value>
               <value>/WEB-INF/defs/widgets.xml</value>
               <value>/WEB-INF/defs/administrator.xml</value>
               <value>/WEB-INF/defs/customer.xml</value>
               <value>/WEB-INF/defs/templates.xml</value>
           </list>
       </property>
  </bean>
 

The values in the list are the actual files containing the definitions.

Author:

Alef Arendsen, Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

TilesView

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport

logger

Constructor Summary

TilesConfigurer()

Method Summary

protected void	initApplicationContext() Initialization of the Tiles definition factory.
void	setDefinitions(java.lang.String[] definitions) Set the Tiles definitions, i.e.
void	setFactoryClass(java.lang.Class factoryClass) Set the factory class for Tiles.
void	setValidateDefinitions(boolean validateDefinitions) Validate the Tiles definitions? Default is false.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport

getServletContext, getTempDir, getWebApplicationContext, requiredContextClass

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport

getApplicationContext, getMessageSourceAccessor, setApplicationContext

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TilesConfigurer

public TilesConfigurer()

Method Detail

setFactoryClass

public void setFactoryClass(java.lang.Class factoryClass)

Set the factory class for Tiles. Default is I18nFactorySet.

See Also:

I18nFactorySet

setValidateDefinitions

public void setValidateDefinitions(boolean validateDefinitions)

Validate the Tiles definitions? Default is false.

Parameters:

validateDefinitions - true to validate, false otherwise

setDefinitions

public void setDefinitions(java.lang.String[] definitions)

Set the Tiles definitions, i.e. the list of files.

Parameters:

definitions - the files containing the definitions

initApplicationContext

protected void initApplicationContext()
                               throws ApplicationContextException

Initialization of the Tiles definition factory.

Overrides:

initApplicationContext in class ApplicationObjectSupport

Throws:

ApplicationContextException - if an error occurs