Problem in integrating apache tiles with Spring 3.0

[Neha k Agrawal]

Hi All,
First of all sorry if this is very basic & has already been answered earlier on this forum but I couldn't find it & I am very new to Spring. I am getting the below error. I also see that this package is present in tiles-core-2.2.2.jar

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tilesConfigurer' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tiles/startup/BasicTilesInitializer


I have added the following jars to WEB-INF/lib folder.

tiles-api-2.2.2.jar
tiles-core-2.2.2.jar
tiles-jsp-2.2.2.jar
tiles-servlet-2.2.2.jar
tiles-template-2.2.2.jar


Here goes my dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

	<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-defs.xml</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>

</beans>

Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance.

[Atul Kotwale]

Try to put jar in WEB-INF/Classes folder. Sometime tomcat does not pick up jar for lib folder.

[Neha k Agrawal]

I just tried that & no luck same error. Do you suggest something else?

[Atul Kotwale]

I have created a maven project and it works fine. I would suggest you to create maven project instead of adding jar manually. It would be easier to maintain the jars in future too.