I\'m looking for a framework that is better and easier to use than Apache Tiles (which so far, I have used a couple of times).
With Tiles, it seems that when I have
An other approach is Sitemesh. It was designed to mesh views where you can not modify the original, so it is more a html transformation/decoration framework than a templating framework like Tiles.
In my personal opinion Tiles is the better approach for appliations, and I would try to implement some kind of resolver (based on some naming conventions) that makes the xml files obsolete, but this was not the question.
@See: This old introductions shows how SiteMesh works.