Issue tiles (Could not resolve view with name...) - spring-mvc

Question

I am working with Spring MVC. My application was ok before inserting tiles, now I keep receiving the error message as:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Could not resolve view with name '/sisStudent' in servlet with name 'mvc-dispatcher'
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1190)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.processDispatchResult(DispatcherServlet.java:992)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:939)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:936)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:827)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:812)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
My tiles.xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 3.0//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_3_0.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="base.definition" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="" />
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/jsps/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/jsps/menu.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="" />
<!-- put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/jsps/footer.jsp" /> -->
</definition>
<definition name="sisStudent" extends="base.definition">
<put-attribute name="title" value="SIS Students" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsps/sisStudent.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
My spring-servlet.xml is:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="au.edu.nsw.det.tls.tar.sis.controller" />
<!--
bean id="tilesViewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/jsps/</value> </property>
<property name="suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> <property
name="viewClass"> <value>
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView</value>
</property> </bean>
-->
<!-- bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/jsps/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean -->
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
My controller is:
#Controller
// #RequestMapping("/studentSearch")
public class StudentSearchController {
#Autowired
StudentService studentService;
// #RequestMapping(value="/StudentSearchById", method = RequestMethod.GET)
// public ModelAndView searchById(#PathVariable Long studentId) {
#RequestMapping (value="/openStudentSearchScreen", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView openCourseSearchScreen(){
ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("/sisStudent");
return modelAndView;
}
}
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

In your ModelAndView constructor remove the leading / so it should be
#RequestMapping (value="/openStudentSearchScreen", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView openCourseSearchScreen(){
ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("sisStudent");
return modelAndView;
}
OTOH Insted of ModelAndView you can use String
#RequestMapping (value="/openStudentSearchScreen", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String openCourseSearchScreen(){
return "sisStudent";//Tiles definition name
}
If you want to add some model attribute
#RequestMapping (value="/openStudentSearchScreen", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String openCourseSearchScreen(Model model){
model.addAttribute("<name of the attribute>",<value as object>);
return "sisStudent";//Tiles definition name
}