Documentation Inconsistency - Required version of Tiles [SPR-6293]

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Daniel Mikusa opened SPR-6293 and commented

The Spring Documentation lists the required version of Tiles as 2.0.4 or greater.

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/ch16s03.html

The JavaDoc for TilesConfigurer in spring 3.0, lists the required version of Tiles as 2.1.2 or greater.

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/tiles2/TilesConfigurer.html

I'm assuming the documentation for TilesConfigurer is correct as when I try to build an application with Spring 3.0 and Tiles 2.0.7, I get the following exception and the referenced missing class is not part of Tiles 2.0.7.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tiles.startup.TilesInitializer
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1360)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1206)
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1836)
org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.determineCandidateConstructors(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:224)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.determineConstructorsFromBeanPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:903)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:876)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:479)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:289)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:286)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:188)
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:543)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:730)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:387)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:447)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:342)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:308)
org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:127)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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Affects: 3.0 RC1

Referenced from: commits edf331b

[spring-projects-issues]

Luke Taylor commented

Thanks for spotting this. I've updated the reference manual to also specify 2.1.2 as the minimum required version.