JSP tricks to make templating easier?

Question

At work I\'ve been tasked with turning a bunch of HTML files into a simple JSP project. It\'s really all static, no serverside logic to program. I

Answer 1

Add dependecies for use <%@tag description="User Page template" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

    
        javax.servlet
        servlet-api
        2.5
    
    
        javax.servlet.jsp
        jsp-api
        2.2
        provided
    
    
        javax.servlet.jsp.jstl
        javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-api
        1.2.1
    
    
        taglibs
        standard
        1.1.2