How do I have common error page templates with tiles in a Spring/MVC 3.0 app?

Question

I have a Spring MVC/3.0 app using tiles as it's view, this is working fine however I can't figure out how to get the error pages to also use tiles.

I have in my web.xml

<error-page> 
  <error-code>404</error-code> 
  <location>/WEB-INF/error/404.jsp</location> 
</error-page>

which works fine as an ordinary view NOT using tiles, however when I change the location to one of the view names, the view is not found and renders the ordinary error page.

My tiles.xml file for the view contains the following definition

<definition name="404" extends="standardLayout"> 
  <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/error/404.jsp" /> 
</definition>

I'm configuring tiles through spring as follows:

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

I'm suspecting this is all due to the view not coming from spring itself?

Answer 1

You need to add the "layouted" jsp in your web.xml. Below is the explaination code:

// Your web.xml should look like this: 
<error-page> 
  <error-code>404</error-code> 
  <location>/WEB-INF/error/layout-404.jsp</location> 
</error-page> 
 
 
// Your layout-404.jsp should look like this: 
<%@page isELIgnored="false" %> 
<%@page contentType="text/html"%> 
<%@taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %> 
<tiles:insertDefinition name="404" />     
 
 
// Your layout def should look like this: 
<definition name="404" extends="standardLayout"> 
  <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/error/404.jsp" /> 
</definition>

How do I have common error page templates with tiles in a Spring/MVC 3.0 app?

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