Question

I am designing a shopping cart project in which my content area alone changes, so i configured it with struts tiles, and everything worked fine until i encountered forms in my project. when ever i tried to display forms(struts forms) using tiles. the forms didn’t compile it is just coming as such <html:text property="username"/> please help.

My Tiles def is

<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="main-layout" path="/WEB-INF/layout.jsp">
    <put name="title" value="" />
    <put name="header" value="/WEB-INF/layout/header.jsp"/>
    <put name="secmenu" value="/WEB-INF/layout/secmenu.jsp"/>
    <put name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/layout/menu.jsp"/>
    <put name="content" value=""/>
    <put name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/layout/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>    
<definition name="index" extends="main-layout">
    <put name="title" value="The Mobile Store"/>
    <put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/pages/homecontent.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="login" extends="main-layout">
    <put name="title" value=":: Login ::"/>
    <put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/pages/login.jsp"/>        
</definition>

The form i used is

<html:form action="login.html" method="post">
    <table align="center" id="logintable">
        <tr>
            <td>Enter Your UserName : </td>
            <td><html:text property="username"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Enter Your Password : </td>
            <td><html:password property="password"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>                
            <td colspan="2"><html:submit value="LOGIN"/></td>                
        </tr>
    </table>            
</html:form>

Answer 1

I think you are getting the problem since you are trying to access the jsp file which is inside the WEB-INF folder. And if you are trying with struts 1.x try using struts 2.0. for tutorial use this http://viralpatel.net/blogs/struts-2-tiles-plugin-tutorial-with-example-in-eclipse/