SiteMesh - still active? v2 vs v3?

Question

I'm evaluating SiteMesh for use in our web applications. I've found two websites for SiteMesh

• version 2.4 (Jan 2009) -> http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/
• version 3.0 (Sep 2009) -> http://www.sitemesh.org/

Looks like the same author is involved in both (Joe Walnes). So my question is - is SiteMesh still in active development? Are the two versions I found both stable? Is one deprecated? Are there any other alternatives to SiteMesh? We are looking for a tool that can act as a reverse proxy to a number of different web applications to apply a consistent look and feel, controlled separately from the apps. SiteMesh appears to be able to do that.. I think.

Answer 1

Sitemesh is being used by Grails, so I don't think it's abandoned.

As an alternative, I would take a look to JTidy (if those sites are not already showing XHTML) to obtain well-formed XML and then parse or transform it with XSLT.

Regards.