The problem is that requests for the static content go to the dispatcherServlet, because it’s mapped as <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>. It’s a very common problem in applications with “RESTful” URLs (that is, without any prefix in the DispatcherServlet mapping). There are several possible ways to solve this problem: Since Spring 3.x the preferred way to access static … Read more
The solution is to add the required dependencies, load tiles with an appropriate listener and create a custom result type. Fortunately these steps are quite easy, once done you can follow normal tiles 2 examples for a how to define templates. 1) Dependencies (start with basic struts project but in this example I’ll use conventions … Read more
Servlet 3.0 which Tomcat 7 supports includes the ability to package jsps into a jar. You need to: place your jsps in META-INF/resources directory of your jar optionally include a web-fragment.xml in the META-INF directory of your jar place the jar in WEB-INF/lib directory of your war You should then be able to reference your … Read more
This type of layout is called Masonry layout. Masonry is another grid layout but it will fill out the whitespace caused by the difference height of elements. jQuery Masonry is one of jQuery plugin to create masonry layout. Alternatively, you can use CSS3 columns. But for now jQuery based plugin is the best choice since … Read more