Migrate Spring MVC to Spring boot 2.2.6 - tiles configuration is not loaded - spring

Question

I have migrated Spring MVC 5.2.5 to Spring Boot 2.2.6.
The project has many JSP pages and uses Apache tiles in order to build the templates.
The Spring application class looks like:
The Pom.xml dependecies are:
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<version>9.0.35</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-extras</artifactId>
<version>3.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-extras</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId>
<artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.thoughtworks.xstream</groupId>
<artifactId>xstream</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-hibernate5</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
The WebConfiguration class:
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#EnableAspectJAutoProxy
#Slf4j
#EnableSwagger2
public class WebConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer
{
#Autowired
private CommonConstants commonConstants;
#Autowired
private RestInterceptor restInterceptor;
#Autowired
private ObjectMapper objectMapper;
#Autowired
private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
#Override
public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.enable();
}
#Override
public void configureAsyncSupport(AsyncSupportConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.setDefaultTimeout(120*1000L);
}
#Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
ResourceHandlerRegistration handler = registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**");
try {
if (StringUtils.hasText(commonConstants.getBflowResourceDir())) {
for (String location
Arrays.asList(StringUtils.split(commonConstants.getBflowResourceDir(), ","))) {
log.info("Using custom directory for resources: " + location);
handler.addResourceLocations("file:" + location + "/");
}
}
handler.addResourceLocations("/dist/");
}
catch (Exception e) {
log.error("error", e);
}
handler.addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/dist/");
}
#Bean
public TilesConfigurer tilesConfigurer() {
TilesConfigurer tilesConfigurer = new TilesConfigurer();
String[] definitions = new String[] {"WEB-INF/tiles.xml"};
tilesConfigurer.setDefinitions(definitions);
tilesConfigurer.setCheckRefresh(true);
return tilesConfigurer;
}
#Bean
public TilesViewResolver tilesViewResolver() {
TilesViewResolver tilesViewResolver = new TilesViewResolver();
tilesViewResolver.setOrder(-1);
return tilesViewResolver;
}
}
The tiles configuration file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 3.0//EN"
"tiles-config_3_0.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="simple_template" template="/WEB-INF/templates/simple_template.jsp">
<put-attribute name="global" value="/WEB-INF/views/general/global.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="main_template" extends="simple_template">
<put-attribute name="body">
<definition template="/WEB-INF/templates/main_template.jsp">
<put-attribute name="header_include" value="/WEB-INF/views/general/header_include.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/views/modules/header.jsp" />
</definition>
</put-attribute>
</definition>
<definition name="content_template" extends="main_template">
<put-attribute name="main_body" cascade="true">
<definition template="/WEB-INF/templates/content_template.jsp" />
</put-attribute>
</definition>
<definition name="login" extends="content_template">
<put-attribute name="title" value="login.title" cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/views/login/login.jsp" cascade="true" />
</definition>
<definition name="home" extends="main_template">
<put-attribute name="title" value="home.title" cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="main_body" value="/WEB-INF/dist/ng2/index-ng2.jsp" cascade="true" />
</definition>
<definition name="single_page_message/*" extends="content_template">
<put-attribute name="title" value="{1}" cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="content" value="/WEB-INF/views/general/single_page_message.jsp" cascade="true" />
</definition>
<definition name="access_error" extends="simple_template">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/general/single_page_message.jsp" type="template" />
</definition>
<definition name="standalone/**" extends="simple_template">
<put-attribute name="inner" value="{1}" cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="title" value="{1}" cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="body">
<definition template="/WEB-INF/templates/standalone_template.jsp">
<put-attribute name="header_include" value="/WEB-INF/views/general/header_include.jsp" />
</definition>
</put-attribute>
</definition>
<definition name="**.jsp" template="{1}.jsp" />
<definition name="**" extends="simple_template">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/{1}.jsp" type="template" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
The server is started succeussfully and I am getting views from JSP pages.
Yet, the tiles configuration has not loaded the page are without header and footer.
What am I missing?
Thanks for all the help