Best Practice for Forwarding to a Tile?

[Matt Raible <ma...@raibledesigns.com>]

I have all my pages stores as definitions in a tiles-config.xml file.  I
want to setup global-forwards that will route a user to a definition.

The two ways I've found that work are:

1.  Adding a forward that points to a ForwardAction that has the
definition name as a parameter.
2.  Use a DefaultAction that maps to an "/unknown" mapping.

The first one requires much more work, as there are two entries for each
link I want to add:

 <forward name="editProfile" path="/userProfile.do"/>
...
    <action
        path="/userProfile"
        type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
        parameter="userProfile"/>

Is there an easier way?  I'd love to use multiple forwards and one
action to handle all of the my definition-forwards.

Thanks,

Matt