JSP, can it work similar to yield, layout, content_for in Ruby/Rails/Erb

Question

I am trying to figure out how to most effectively reuse JSP code. I love the way Rails/erb works in that way ... with yield, layout, content_for

Example:

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Answer 1

While you mentioned wanting no frameworks on top of stock jsp, the Layout functionality of the Stripes Framework does pretty much exactly what you're asking for.