JSP tricks to make templating easier?

Question

At work I\'ve been tasked with turning a bunch of HTML files into a simple JSP project. It\'s really all static, no serverside logic to program. I

Answer 1

I made quite easy, Django style JSP Template inheritance tag library. https://github.com/kwon37xi/jsp-template-inheritance

I think it make easy to manage layouts without learning curve.

example code :

base.jsp : layout

<%@page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://kwonnam.pe.kr/jsp/template-inheritance" prefix="layout"%>


    
        
    

Head

    
        header
    


Contents

    

    
        
Contents will be placed under this h2
    
    




    

    jsp template inheritance example

view.jsp : contents

<%@page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://kwonnam.pe.kr/jsp/template-inheritance" prefix="layout"%>

    
        
This is an example about layout management with JSP Template Inheritance
    
    
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin porta,
        augue ut ornare sagittis, diam libero facilisis augue, quis accumsan enim velit a mauris.