Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I am new to struts and tiles; would appreciate your help in solving this issue:

I am using struts along with the tiles plugin in my application. When i try to access a URL (http://localhost:8080/mysite/index.do) mapped to a tiles forward, i am getting the following exception.

javax.servlet.ServletException: Path forum.index does not start with a "/" character
	org.apache.struts.chain.ComposableRequestProcessor.process(ComposableRequestProcessor.java:283)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1858)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:446)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

The following is an extract from my struts-config.xml

    <action-mappings>
        <action path="/index"      forward="forum.index" />
    </action-mappings>

    <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
        <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml" />      
        <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
    </plug-in>

And the forward 'forum.index' is defined in my tiles-defs.xml as

    <definition name="forum.index" extends="forum.default">
        <put name="content"  value="/WEB-INF/tiles/pages/index.jsp" />
        <put name="pagename" value="Home" />
    </definition>

The definition 'forum.default' is not shown, but is present in the tiles-defs.xml...

Could you please tell me what i am doing wrong?

This technique was working when i was using NetBeans 5.5.. But now after porting the application to Eclipse + WTP + Tomcat 5.5, i am getting this error.

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks and regards,
Rakesh TA