Portlet Tiles Plugin

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Tiles is a templating framework designed to easily allow the creation of web application pages with a consistent look and feel. It can be used for both page decorating and componentization.

Features

Supports Tiles in Portlet environment

Usage

The following steps must be taken in order to enable tiles support within your Struts2 Portlet application:

Include the struts-portlet-tiles-plugin as a dependency in your web application. If you are using maven2, the dependency configuration will be similar to:
All package definitions which require tiles support must either extend the struts-portlet-tiles-default package or must register the Tiles Result type definition dedicated for Portlets.
and dedicated action to support Tiles in portlet environment
Configure your actions to utilize a tiles definition:

Installation

This plugin can be installed by copying the plugin jar into your application's /WEB-INF/lib directory. No other files need to be copied or created.