Chapter 9. Apache Tiles and Spring Web Flow in Action

When it comes to web application development, reusability and maintenance are two important factors that need to be considered. Spring Web Flow is an independent framework that facilitates you to develop highly configurable and maintainable flow-based web applications. On the other hand, Apache Tiles is another popular open source framework that encourages the use of reusable template-based web application development.

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to incorporate these two frameworks within a Spring MVC application so that we can obtain maximum reusability of frontend templates with the help of Apache Tiles and less maintenance in our application logic with the help of Spring Web Flow. Again, remember that these two frameworks are totally independent; there is no requirement that we should always use these frameworks together. Apache Tiles is mostly used to reduce redundant code in the frontend by leveraging frontend...