Templates in a Spring MVC web application

Question

I have a lot of common areas in my web application design, for example footer, header sidebar, blocks...etc and going through all of the application JSP files to change somethin

Answer 1

If you want to seperate Header, Footer and some other common stuff from the "real" content, then you can use Apache Tiles.

It is easy to integrate in spring. So for example Spring Roo use it.