What alternatives exist to Sitemesh to help layout JSP/JSTL page footers/headers in a Spring MVC app?

Question

I've tried excluding certain pages from my Sitemesh decorator but it doesn't seem to follow its own logic:

<decorators>
    <excludes>
        <pattern>/register</pattern>
    </excludes>
</decorators>

What alternatives exist to Sitemesh that could serve as a drop-in replacement in a Spring MVC app that uses mainly plain JSP/JSTL?

Answer 1

Have you tried tiles (http://tiles.apache.org/)? I have used it with spring mvc (but freemarker and not jsp)..