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I've recently started upgrading some applications to use Spring Webflow 2, and I want to make use of the new Ajax functionality that comes with Webflow 2. Can somebody please direct me to a tutorial for integrating Tiles 2 with Spring Webflow (since that's apparently what they recommend). I've found the documentation that comes with Webflow 2 in this regard to be absolutely useless.

Answer 1

This isn't exactly referring to the ajax features, but it helped me get apache tiles 2 set up for regular flows:
http://jee-bpel-soa.blogspot.com/2008/12/spring-web-flows-2-and-tiles.html
A lot more details are at the link, but the core bit you need is a new view resolver:
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions" value="/WEB-INF/flows/main/main-tiles.xml" />
</bean>

Answer 2

This is what I did to get it working with webflow 2 and tiles 2.0
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs/templates.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="urlMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/flow/**/*.html">
flowController
</prop>
<prop key="/**/*.html">viewController</prop>
</props>
</property>
<property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>
<bean id="tilesViewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
</bean>
<bean id="flowController"
class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController">
<property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor" />
</bean>
<webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor"
flow-registry="flowRegistry" />
<webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices"
base-path="/WEB-INF/flow/user">
<webflow:flow-location path="/manage-users.xml" />
</webflow:flow-registry>
<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices"
view-factory-creator="viewFactoryCreator" />
<bean id="viewFactoryCreator"
class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
<property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver" />
</bean>

Answer 3

It's perfectly explained in the docs. So, please, stop saying it isn't.
http://static.springsource.org/spring-webflow/docs/2.0.x/reference/htmlsingle/spring-webflow-reference.html
How to use tiles in spring: 10.5 View resolution (link + #spring-mvc-config-spring-view-resolution)
How to use Ajax with tiles in spring: 11.5: Handling Ajax request (link + #spring-js-ajax)
Copy the code from those links and you will end up with something like this:
Configuration for webflow to use Tiles:
<!-- Plugs in a custom creator for Web Flow views -->
<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices" view-factory-creator="mvcViewFactoryCreator" />
<!-- Configures Web Flow to use Tiles to create views for rendering; Tiles allows for applying consistent layouts to your views -->
<bean id="mvcViewFactoryCreator" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
<property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver" />
</bean>
Configuration for Tiles:
<!-- Configures the Tiles layout system -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/views/layouts/page.xml</value>
<value>/WEB-INF/views/layouts/table.xml</value>
<value>/WEB-INF/views/globalViews.xml</value>
<value>/WEB-INF/views/userViews.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
Configuration for Tiles + Ajax:
<!--
- This bean configures the UrlBasedViewResolver, which resolves logical view names
- by delegating to the Tiles layout system. A view name to resolve is treated as
- the name of a tiles definition.
-->
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.js.ajax.AjaxUrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.view.FlowAjaxTilesView" />
</bean>