Tiles 2.1 integration with Spring 3.0

Hello,
I am trying to integrate Spring 3.0 with Tiles 2.1.4 in my application. But when tomcat server is started the autowiring is failing with bean being not created. There were some Spring issues in past for Spring 2.5 & Tiles 2.1 integration, which were supposed to be addressed in Spring 3.0. But I still see this problem. Can someone provide me any help from the stacktrace below? Thanks in advance.

ERROR [main] (FrameworkServlet.java:315) - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tilesConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/systemmonitor-servlet.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.apache.tiles.portlet.context.NotAPortletEnvironmentException: Cannot access portlet classes
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1401)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:287)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:189)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:557)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:842)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:416)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:443)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:459)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:340)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:307)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:993)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4458)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:526)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:630)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:556)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:491)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1206)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:314)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:583)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: org.apache.tiles.portlet.context.NotAPortletEnvironmentException: Cannot access portlet classes
at org.apache.tiles.portlet.context.PortletTilesRequestContextFactory.<init>(PortletTilesRequestContextFactory.java:71)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at org.apache.tiles.context.ChainedTilesRequestContextFactory.init(ChainedTilesRequestContextFactory.java:100)
at org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.storeContainerDependencies(TilesContainerFactory.java:429)
at org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.initializeContainer(TilesContainerFactory.java:368)
at org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.createTilesContainer(TilesContainerFactory.java:287)
at org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.createContainer(TilesContainerFactory.java:231)
at org.apache.tiles.startup.BasicTilesInitializer.createContainer(BasicTilesInitializer.java:117)
at org.apache.tiles.startup.BasicTilesInitializer.initialize(BasicTilesInitializer.java:53)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer.afterPropertiesSet(TilesConfigurer.java:203)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1460)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1398)
... 41 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/portlet/PortletRequest
at org.apache.tiles.portlet.context.PortletTilesRequestContextFactory.<init>(PortletTilesRequestContextFactory.java:66)
... 57 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.portlet.PortletRequest
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
... 58 more
Jan 20, 2010 6:56:03 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable

Can you post your spring and tiles config file..

what i have done is i have given this referance in spring config and using the below view resolvers

property file for the views is in com.controller folder . this might help you

It is a web-mvc application. I have pasted the XML contents below. It is same as yours.

<bean id="viewResolver1" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.Resour ceBundleViewResolver" p:basename="views" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.sample.web" />
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2 .TilesConfigurer" p:definitions="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />

tiles-defs.xml contents is given below.
---------------------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>

<definition name="baseLayout" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/baseLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Template"/>
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/header.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/menu.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/body.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>

<definition name="welcome" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Welcome"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp"/>
</definition>

<definition name="friends" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Friends"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/friends.jsp"/>
</definition>

<definition name="office" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Office"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/office.jsp"/>
</definition>

</tiles-definitions>

This issue is resolved now after downloading the dependendend files. Hopefully we will soon have Spring 3.0 with depedant available for development. If anyone already know please share the link.

Arshia Bora wrote:This issue is resolved now after downloading the dependendend files. Hopefully we will soon have Spring 3.0 with depedant available for development. If anyone already know please share the link.

Note that in Spring 3.0 all jars are now separate, there is no more spring-all.jar

Mark

Hey Mark,
The way we had "spring-framework-2.5.5-with-dependencies", are we not going to have "spring-framework-3.0-with-dependencies" available soon?

So what is the dependency here? I can not figure out and still get the error...

Thanks,
Reza

You need to keep resolving the exceptions by including other librariers from Spring 3.0 for e.g. Portlet stuff. Once that is fixed, you might need commons-digester1.8.jar, commons-logging-api.jar etc. So basically go on fixing the dependencies one by one. Make sure that you download correct dependancy (& remember the same from where you downloaded this; this will help to resolve Deployment issues if any).