2. Tiles XML Configuration

The Tiles '.mainTemplate' sets up the default layout and the other two definitions extend the main template and just set their body.

/WEB-INF/tiles-defs/templates.xml
                
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
       "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
       "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">

<tiles-definitions>

    <!-- Default Main Template -->
    <definition name=".mainTemplate" template="/WEB-INF/templates/main.jsp">
        <put-attribute name="title" value="Simple Tiles 2 Example" type="string" />
        <put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/templates/header.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/templates/footer.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="menu" value="/WEB-INF/templates/menu.jsp" />
        <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/templates/blank.jsp" />
    </definition>
 
    <definition name="index" extends=".mainTemplate">
        <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp" />
    </definition>

    <definition name="info/about" extends=".mainTemplate">
        <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/info/about.jsp" />
    </definition>
    
</tiles-definitions>