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POWhat Java templating frameworks/engines allow remote templates?
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    copied!<p>I've got an intermediate amount of experience programming in Java and a fairly advanced amount of experience programming web applications in other languages. I'm currently in the process of learning some of the Java web frameworks (Spring MVC, Struts.)</p> <p>Where I work, we have a number of individual Java web applications, deployed in separate contexts and as separate wars. A few of the oldest are servlets, many are Struts 1, and the new ones will be Spring 3. </p> <p>Most of the existing applications have inconsistent or no branding (graphics/decoration), and one of the things I am looking into is <strong>applying a consistent header and footer across multiple sites that we can maintain in one place</strong>. Ideally it wouldn't even have to be on the same server as the web applications. To be clear-- whereever I configure my template, I want to be able to configure <a href="http://some.other.server/template" rel="nofollow">http://some.other.server/template</a> instead of WEB-INF/template.</p> <p>I would like to use <strong>SiteMesh</strong> or something with the same "decorating" approach but I researched it, and apparently the only way this has been done in SiteMesh 2 was done by someone who forked the code and customized it to allow remote templates to be imported. (I found this information on the Sitemesh3 Google group.)</p> <p>I'm at the beginning of designing this solution so I suppose we could use anything like <strong>Velocity, Freemarker, Tiles</strong>. However, where I work we are slow to update old apps and conservative in adopting new technologies, so I have to prove a solution has good community support, works with Struts 1 and Spring 3 MVC, and is fairly trustworthy and stable.</p>
 

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