Apache Tiles Reviews & Product Details

It is designed to be used easily alongside other web frameworks like Spring Web, Struts, etc. I had the opportunity to worked with Apache Tiles on my first Java Web project built over Struts and it helped us a lot to organise our pages. And, the next time I've used it was along side Spring Webflow for a cruise booking web application. It did helped us work smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside is how you configure it. It's not trendy anymore to configure using XML. I think the Java World has started abandoing XML's ever since Spring introduced Java Config. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Tiles has been an integral part of the J2EE framework. Its a very mature and well used tool for making Java based web applications relying on the MVC design pattern. Best thing is its compatibility with the Struts framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since version 3.0.8 Apache Tiles has been decommissioned and not updated by the Apache foundation. It has been forked into several other Open source projects however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

using next version jstl 1.2, can work well with spring boot, sprngmvc and angular js Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Do it manually by configuring in tiles.xml file instead of configuration code.

Better if combine tilesx and tiles taglib into one tablib.

Note support, i see on apache tile it was retired, so the community support it will be down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How was easy to fit our requirements by using Apache Tiles, some requirements were: Split job between teams: designers, developers, and translators(English, Spanish) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuration should be easier. Because integrate with CSS, bootstrap sometimes de requirements were difficult for CI pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liked a lot the user interface and ease to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing has come in my mind at this moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have to design my page manually and I could use Apache Tiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was a bit hard to get started initially and not a lot of tutorials were available on the Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It increases the speed of development which is very crucial when it comes to deliver project to the customer on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t think of something which can be describe here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The code can be reused as fragments and highly maintainable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s been a while that i used apache tiles but, if i could remember one thing then that would be xml Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a free, open source templating framework purely built on the Composite design pattern.

Advantages:

e-usability

ease in configuration

performance overhead is very low

ability to build up complex (composite) views out of basic views, UI reuse

it's been around for some time and it's supported in some major frameworks, such as Spring (it's easy to start with it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

composite view instead of decorator - in my private opinion the decorator pattern is more flexible - you may define variables, slots, attributes, etc. in the very end of the request handling, whereas in composite view you need to focus on when you define the attribute (all attributes of a sub-view have to be defined before it's rendered - attributes overriding is more difficult) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Tiles lets you create reusable UI templates which saves you lots of time by creating single time components and embed them into your view pages. This has as a result avoid re-inventing the wheel and add duplicate code everywhere, which not only saves you time, but also keeps your code much more cleaner and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately the project is not developed anymore, which has as a result to have a hard time on asking for solutions on problems on the web and finding resources since the community around it is declining. Integrating it with modern tools may have many problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.