The guys at SpringSource have too many links to STS 3.5.0.M3, finding 3.5.0.RC1 was a bit hard, so if you're looking for it, go here: http://www.springsource.com/products/eclipse-downloads
While resolving the test problems in the last code, let's look at what we get by doing a
mvn jetty:run
The application has a header on top, a footer in the bottom, and a menu on the left hand side. This is in line with the Composite View pattern described in the Tiles tutorial:. To recompose this layout, see src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/layouts.jspx. In there you find that what we want to work with is
I love Roo! Ben Alex and his team have made a great job making starting a Spring project a breeze. However, I've shied away from using Java for XHTML/JS/CSS since 2003, so while I know the underlying technologies with Roo (JPA, the databases, Spring, JUnit, Tomcat, etc etc) I don't know Apache Tiles at all. So I figured I'd like to learn it, at least until Roo 1.1 hits in a few weeks, when I'll probably want to learn GWT. Stay tuned...
So, for learning this I'm going to make a project I've been planning ever since I released my awesome tuner for early music musicians: ...
From a concert September 11th in Esbjerg, Casper, Kristian and Thomas from Kind of Magic