JSF,Tiles, Sun App Server and NetBeans 5.5

Question

hi all,
here is my environment :
1.Server - Sun Application Server (Running On Suse Linux OS)
2.IDE - NetBeans 5.5
3.Project - JSF with Tiles
here i found topic about tiles and jsf :
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643536&messageID=3792238 but i think that Tiles is best alternative for JSF Layout Manager (It's my mind).
is there anybody help me how to integrate tiles with jsf ?
here is my example :
1.web.xml :
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Tiles Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>definitions-config</param-name>
            <param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles-def.xml</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>2. tiles-def.xml :
<tiles-definitions>
         <!--****************************************************************-->
     <!--                     Global Layout                       -->
     <!--****************************************************************-->
     <definition name="global.layout" path="/pages/Mylayout/layout.jsp">
          <put name="title" value="Magti Billing System" type="string"></put>
                <put name="subtitle" value="Magti Billing System" type="string"></put>
                <put name="header" value="/pages/Mylayout/header.jsp"></put>
          <put name="subheader" value="/pages/Mylayout/sub_header.jsp"></put>          
          <put name="footer" value="/pages/Mylayout/footer.jsp"></put>
                <put name="body" value="/pages/Mylayout/body.jsp"></put>
                <put name="left_menu" value="/pages/Mylayout/left_menu.jsp"></put>
     </definition>   
</tiles-definitions>3.and then i have 5 blank jsp pages : body.jps, footer.jsp, header.jsp, layout.jsp, left_menu.jsp, sub_header.jsp.
4. here is my layout.jsp code :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2"
          xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
          xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
          xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
          xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf"
          xmlns:tiles="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles"
>
    <tiles:importAttribute scope="request"></tiles:importAttribute>
    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.page1}" id="page1">
            <webuijsf:html binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.html1}" id="html1">
                <webuijsf:head binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.head1}" id="head1">
                    <webuijsf:link binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.link1}" id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
                </webuijsf:head>
                <webuijsf:body binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.body1}" id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
                    <webuijsf:form binding="#{pages$Mylayout$layout.form1}" id="form1">
                        <h:panelGrid columns="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
                                     border="0" styleClass="maingrid" columnClasses="maingrid">
                            <f:facet name="header">
                                <f:subview id="header">
                                    <h:panelGrid columns="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                        <tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="false" />
                                        <tiles:insert attribute="subheader" flush="false" />
                                    </h:panelGrid>
                                </f:subview>
                            </f:facet>
                            <f:subview id="left_menu">
                                <tiles:insert attribute="left_menu" flush="false" />
                            </f:subview>
                            <f:subview id="body">
                                <tiles:insert attribute="body" flush="false" />
                            </f:subview>
                            <!--
                            <f:facet name="footer">
                                <f:subview id="footer">
                                    <tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="false" />
                                </f:subview>
                            </f:facet>
                            -->
                        </h:panelGrid>
                    </webuijsf:form>
                </webuijsf:body>
            </webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
    </f:view>
</jsp:root>5. and at last i have index.jsp:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf"
xmlns:tiles="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles"
>
    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page binding="#{pages$main$index.page1}" id="page1">
            <webuijsf:html binding="#{pages$main$index.html1}" id="html1">
                <webuijsf:head binding="#{pages$main$index.head1}" id="head1">
                    <webuijsf:link binding="#{pages$main$index.link1}" id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
                </webuijsf:head>
                <webuijsf:body binding="#{pages$main$index.body1}" id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
                    <webuijsf:form binding="#{pages$main$index.form1}" id="form1">
                        <tiles:insert definition="global.layout" flush="false"/>
                    </webuijsf:form>
                </webuijsf:body>
            </webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
    </f:view>
</jsp:root>but i get an error like this :
Can't leverage base class
java.lang.IllegalStateException
        at com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.ViewTag.getComponentType(ViewTag.java:259)
        at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentELTag.createComponent(UIComponentELTag.java:219)
        at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.createChild(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:458)
        at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.findComponent(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:643)
        at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentClassicTagBase.doStartTag(UIComponentClassicTagBase.java:1070)
        at com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.ViewTag.doStartTag(ViewTag.java:180)
        at org.apache.jsp.pages.Mylayout.layout_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(layout_jsp.java:140)
        at org.apache.jsp.pages.Mylayout.layout_jsp._jspService(layout_jsp.java:99)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:111)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:353)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:412)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:318)Any Ideas Is Usefull. Thanks.
Paata.

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm trying to use Tiles with NetBeans 6.0. I used a similar set up as the other writer did, except for the JSP:root part:
<jsp:root version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf"
xmlns:tiles="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles">
It complies and deploys OK, except it renders a blank page. The source code of the page is below. It seems that the "tiles:insertDefinition" was not expanded. Would you share some lights on how you get it to work. By the way I did not use shale-tiles, do I need it?
Thanks in advance.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:wairole="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/wai-rdf/GUIRoleTaxonomy#" xmlns:waistate="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/aaa">
<head>
<meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Pragma" />
<meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Cache-Control" />
<meta content="no-store" http-equiv="Cache-Control" />
<meta content="max-age=0" http-equiv="Cache-Control" />
<meta content="1" http-equiv="Expires" />
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/com/sun/webui/jsf/suntheme/css/css_master.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var djConfig = {
    "isDebug": false,
    "parseWidgets": false,
    "debugAtAllCosts": false
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/META-INF/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/META-INF/json/json.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/META-INF/prototype/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/META-INF/com_sun_faces_ajax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.hostenv.setModulePrefix("webui.suntheme", "/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/theme/com/sun/webui/jsf/suntheme/javascript");
dojo.require('webui.suntheme.*');
dojo.require('webui.suntheme.widget.*');
dojo.require('webui.suntheme.widget.jsfx.*');
</script>
<link id="link1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/resources/stylesheet.css" />
</head>
<body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid" onload="" onunload="">
<form id="form1" class="form" method="post" action="/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/faces/Apogee.jsp" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<tiles:insertDefinition flush="false" name="global.layout" />
<input id="form1_hidden" name="form1_hidden" value="form1_hidden" type="hidden" />
<input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="javax.faces.ViewState" value="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" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
webui.suntheme.common.body = new webui.suntheme.body('/Apogee.jsp', '/apogee-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/faces/Apogee.jsp',null,null,'com_sun_webui_util_FocusManager_focusElementId');</script>
</body>
</html>