Put the following in WEB-INF/tags/genericpage.tag
<%@tag description="Overall Page template" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@attribute name="header" fragment="true" %>
<%@attribute name="footer" fragment="true" %>
<html>
<body>
<div id="pageheader">
<jsp:invoke fragment="header"/>
</div>
<div id="body">
<jsp:doBody/>
</div>
<div id="pagefooter">
<jsp:invoke fragment="footer"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To use this:
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
<t:genericpage>
<jsp:attribute name="header">
<h1>Welcome</h1>
</jsp:attribute>
<jsp:attribute name="footer">
<p id="copyright">Copyright 1927, Future Bits When There Be Bits Inc.</p>
</jsp:attribute>
<jsp:body>
<p>Hi I'm the heart of the message</p>
</jsp:body>
</t:genericpage>
That does exactly what you think it does!
This was part of a great answer by Will Hartung on this link.
