Sample tiles setup

classic.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="header" />
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="menu" />
    </td>
    <td>
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="body" />
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">
      <tiles:insertAttribute name="footer" />
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

struts-test.war

.
├── index.jsp
├── layouts
│   └── classic.jsp
├── META-INF
│   └── MANIFEST.MF
├── tiles
│   ├── banner.jsp
│   ├── common_menu.jsp
│   ├── credits.jsp
│   └── home_body.jsp
└── WEB-INF
    ├── classes
    ├── lib
    │   ├── aopalliance-1.0.jar
    │   ├── commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar
    │   ├── commons-collections-3.2.jar
    │   ├── commons-digester-2.0.jar
    │   ├── commons-lang-2.4.jar
    │   ├── freemarker-2.3.15.jar
    │   ├── javassist-3.7.ga.jar
    │   ├── mvel2-2.0.11.jar
    │   ├── ognl-2.7.3.jar
    │   ├── oro-2.0.8.jar
    │   ├── spring-beans-2.5.6.jar
    │   ├── spring-context-2.5.6.jar
    │   ├── spring-core-2.5.6.jar
    │   ├── spring-web-2.5.6.jar
    │   ├── tiles-api-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-compat-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-core-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-el-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-extras-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-freemarker-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-jsp-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-mvel-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-ognl-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-servlet-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-servlet-wildcard-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-template-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── tiles-velocity-2.2.2.jar
    │   ├── velocity-1.6.2.jar
    │   └── velocity-tools-2.0.jar
    ├── tiles.xml
    └── web.xml

6 directories, 38 files

tiles.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
       "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN"
       "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
  <definition name="myapp.homepage" template="/layouts/classic.jsp">
    <put-attribute name="title" value="Tiles tutorial homepage" />
    <put-attribute name="header" value="/tiles/banner.jsp" />
    <put-attribute name="menu" value="/tiles/common_menu.jsp" />
    <put-attribute name="body" value="/tiles/home_body.jsp" />
    <put-attribute name="footer" value="/tiles/credits.jsp" />
  </definition>
</tiles-definitions>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
	<display-name>struts-test</display-name>
	<welcome-file-list>
		<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
	</welcome-file-list>
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.simple.SimpleTilesInitializerServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
</web-app>