Struts2 Update to 2.3.15.1 implies Tiles upgrade to 3.0.1?

Question

Due to the security issues in Struts 2.3.14.3 we upgraded to Struts 2.3.15.1 today.

But we have a problem, since the struts2-tiles-plugin was updated from version 2.1.4 to 3.0.1 and our server is not working anymore.

The error is:

18.07.2013 16:19:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error configuring application listener of class org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tiles/web/startup/TilesListener
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.findClassInternal(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:2244)
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.findClass(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:982)
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.loadClass(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:1610)
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.loadClass(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:1443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4078)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4630)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp.run(WrapperSimpleApp.java:244)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesListener
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.loadClass(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:1663)
at de.hybris.tomcat.HybrisWebappClassLoader60.loadClass(HybrisWebappClassLoader60.java:1443)
... 29 more
18.07.2013 16:19:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SCHWERWIEGEND: Skipped installing application listeners due to previous error(s)
18.07.2013 16:19:20 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start

Now I am a bit stuck, since this article here: How to integrate Struts 2 with Tiles 3 starts to integrate tiles-extras (why do I need that, exactly) and uses annotations and listeners and whatever. I just wanted to do a quick update of struts and not do an update of tiles as well. Can anyone point me out exactly how to do that? Thanks for any help :)

Answer 1

We upgraded now only the struts packages and tiles (including the problematic tiles-servlet) to version 2.2.2. The implementation of tiles 3.0.1 in the new struts package is incomplete and cannot be used.