Question

I’ve recently started upgrading some applications to use Spring Webflow 2, and I want to make use of the new Ajax functionality that comes with Webflow 2. Can somebody please direct me to a tutorial for integrating Tiles 2 with Spring Webflow (since that’s apparently what they recommend). I’ve found the documentation that comes with Webflow 2 in this regard to be absolutely useless.

Answer 1

This is what I did to get it working with webflow 2 and tiles 2.0

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

<bean id="urlMapping"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
    <property name="mappings">
        <props>
            <prop key="/flow/**/*.html">
                flowController
            </prop>
            <prop key="/**/*.html">viewController</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    <property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>

<bean id="tilesViewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass"
        value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
</bean>

<bean id="flowController"
    class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController">
    <property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor" />
</bean>

<webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor"
    flow-registry="flowRegistry" />

<webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices"
    base-path="/WEB-INF/flow/user">
    <webflow:flow-location path="/manage-users.xml" />
</webflow:flow-registry>


<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices"
    view-factory-creator="viewFactoryCreator" />

<bean id="viewFactoryCreator"
    class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
    <property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver" />
</bean>