Tiles seems to be a tough sell in my group, which includes a bona-fide JSP and web development guru. He has some good points. Tiles promises that you can define all of your page's layouts with a couple of template files. The goal is to reduce JSP code duplication and makes it easy to apply global changes to your site. But, if your pages use a completely CSS-driven layout and your site's entire look, feel, and layout can be changed by altering a single CSS file then what does Tiles buy you? To reduce JSP code duplication a couple of header and footer includes will do. Bringing a new web developer into a project is difficult enough with the Struts learning curve. Is the added complexity of Tiles really worth it?
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