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Portlet Tiles Plugin
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Tiles is a templating framework designed to easily allow the creation of web application pages with a consistent look and feel. It can be used for both page decorating and componentization.

## Features

- Supports Tiles in Portlet environment

## Usage

The following steps must be taken in order to enable tiles support within your Struts2 Portlet application:

1. Include the struts-portlet-tiles-plugin as a dependency in your web application. If you are using maven2, the dependency configuration will be similar to:
2. All package definitions which require tiles support must either extend the struts-portlet-tiles-default package or must register the Tiles Result type definition dedicated for Portlets.
3. and dedicated action to support Tiles in portlet environment
4. Configure your actions to utilize a tiles definition:

## Installation

This plugin can be installed by copying the plugin jar into your application's `/WEB-INF/lib` directory. No other files need to be copied or created.