Struts Tiles Problem - Can't get definitions factory from context.

spivee_at_excite.com
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: 10 Mar 2005 09:11:05 -0800

This is a common error, as I have found from searching for a solution.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything that helped me fix
my problem. I'm running struts 1.2 on windows XP with Tomcat 5.5.7.

I've been working on this for a while, but haven't gotten anywhere. I
chopped it down to a minimum. index.jsp works fine unless there is a
tile reference, in which case it throws the exception.

I do have the tiles.jar file in my WEB-INF/lib folder. The taglib
location on the webpages is correct. The location of the
struts-tile-defs.xml file is correct in the plugin.

Here is what I have so far..

----> PLUGIN from struts-config.xml

   <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
      <set-property property="definitions-config"
value="/WEB-INF/configs/struts-tile-defs.xml" />
      <set-property property="definitions-debug" value="2" />
      <set-property property="definitions-parser-details" value="2" />
      <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true"
/>
      <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
   </plug-in>

----> JSP Page index.jsp...

<%@ page language="java"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html:html locale="true">
  <head>
    <html:base />
     <tiles:insert definition="page.default" />
</html:html>

----> struts-tile-defs.xml file entry for page.default

<definition name="page.default"
path="/WEB-INF/pages/layouts/defaultlayout.jsp" />

----> defaultlayout.jsp

<%@ page language="java"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html:html locale="true">
  <table border="0" width="80%">
    Start Page
  </table>
</html:html>

----> The Exception..

javax.servlet.ServletException: Can't get definitions factory from
context.
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:846)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:779)
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp:86)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:99)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:325)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:245)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Can't get definitions factory from
context.
org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.processDefinitionName(InsertTag.java:583)
org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.createTagHandler(InsertTag.java:487)
org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doStartTag(InsertTag.java:451)
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_insert_0(org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp:162)
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_html_0(org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp:123)
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.pages.index_jsp:77)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:99)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:325)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:245)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

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