Spring MVC complex model population from multiple sources

Question

Well, my question may sound a little bit fuzzy, but here it is, anyways. I\'m building a web application using Spring MVC 3.1.M1, JSP 2.1 (without Tiles, I use plain JSP tag

Answer 1

handler interceptor is fine for shared data which is used in every page.

if you want fine grained "components" you really should reconsider using apache tiles. from there you can use a "controller" (ViewPreparer) for each tile as pointed here:

http://richardbarabe.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/apache-tiles-2-viewpreparer-example/