2. Tiles XML Configuration

The Tiles '.mainTemplate' sets up the default layout. Each page is dynamically rendered by dynamically setting the body on the derived Tiles definition. Which in this case is '.mainTemplate'. 

                
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
       "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
       "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>

    <!-- Default Main Template -->
    <definition name=".mainTemplate" template="/WEB-INF/templates/main.jsp">
        <put-attribute name="title" value="Simple Tiles 2 Example" type="string" />
        <put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/templates/header.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/templates/footer.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/templates/menu.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/templates/blank.jsp" />
    </definition>

</tiles-definitions>
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