Why would I use a templating engine? jsp include and jstl vs tiles, freemarker, velocity, sitemesh

Question

I\'m about to choose to way to organize my view (with spring-mvc, but that shouldn\'t matter much)

There are 6 options as far as I see (though they are not mutually

Answer 1

One of the best arguments for facelets (not in your list, but I'll just mention it) opposed to using JSP is that the compilation is integrated with the interpreter instead of being delegated to the JSP compiler. This means that one of the most annoying things I had with JSF 1.1 - having to change the id-attribute on a surrounding JSF-tag when saving a change in order for the runtime engine to discover the change - went away, giving the save-in-editor, reload-in-browser cycle back, along with much better error messages.