Dynamic Tiles Template with Spring 3.0

Question

I'm currently developping an application with Spring 3 and Tiles 2.

I have a question regarding Tiles and the dynamic contents.

I would like to have a "header" template, that contains a menu that is populated with database information.

As the menu is available through the application, i would like not to put the information in the request controller.

Do you have any information ?

Thanks

Answer 1

The solution was to use a ViewPreparer on the menu definition.

Answer 2

Check out this tutorial that can help you with

• spring to tiles integration,
• definitions with wildcards,
• implementing a fallback pattern using the OptionsRenderer, and
• definitions composition.

http://tech.finn.no/the-ultimate-view-tiles-3/