Apache Tiles

What do you like best?

It is designed to be used easily alongside other web frameworks like Spring Web, Struts, etc. I had the opportunity to worked with Apache Tiles on my first Java Web project built over Struts and it helped us a lot to organise our pages. And, the next time I've used it was along side Spring Webflow for a cruise booking web application. It did helped us work smoothly.

What do you dislike?

The downside is how you configure it. It's not trendy anymore to configure using XML. I think the Java World has started abandoing XML's ever since Spring introduced Java Config.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It's Apache Tiles or another. Don't try to mix it up with another templating framework.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Apache Tiles in terms of evolution is the early relative of Microfrontends. It started making the parts of the page as components that are put together upon loading.