Question

Is there some easy to follow tutorial for a Spring MVC newbie to add Tiles 2 to a very simple application? Heck, I don’t really care if it’s Tiles 2. I just can’t stand copying the same JSP over and over.

I come from the Rails world where partials are dirt simple.

I basically just need a main.jsp file that contains sections that I can replace from other JSP’s.

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Every tutorial I find lists what seems like hundreds of lines of XML and assumes I know what viewResolvers, ContextLoadListeners and JohnsonRods are. I realize I have a lot to learn. I’m proud that after only 3 days I got clean urls and annotated controllers working. But being a C# and Ruby developer, I’m finding Java web programming painful. (btw, my day time job is moving me to Java that’s why I must suffer the pain..lol)
< /rant >

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Closing this. I was told to use Struts 1 instead… :-/