Exception using tiles for declarative exceltion handling in Struts

[bcnichols]

Hello I am trying to use a tiles definition for my error page in Struts and I keep getting a problem. I am using declarative exception handling and here is the relevant section of struts-config.xml

<exception key="communication.error"
type="com.klishgroup.elcanoconnector.exceptions.ServiceCommunicationException"
path="elcano.showError.page"
handler="com.klishgroup.elcanoconnector.exceptions.ElcanoExceptionHandler"/>


Here is the snippet from tiles-defs.xml

<definition name="elcano.showError.page" extends="elcano.defaultPage">
<put name="title" value="Conduit Error" />
<put name="body" value="/customer/elcano/pages/show_error.jsp" />
<put name="footer" value="elcano.showError.footer"/>
<put name="header" value="elcano.showError.header"/>
</definition>

So I am using a standard framework layout. When I use this definition in a forward from struts-config it works fine. Only when I include this as a path to an exception is there an issue. This is the exception I get in the browser

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path elcanoi.showError.page does not start with a "/" character
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1062)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:274)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:455)
org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(TilesRequestProcessor.java:320)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:279)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:525)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
com.interwoven.ui.base.util.SetRequestEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetRequestEncodingFilter.java:105)



I have tried to look around and see if there is a known issue with using a tiles definition for a target path for exceptions and haven't seen anything explicit.

Any ideas what else could be at issue here?

Thanks,

BN