We have been considering this also not too long ago. It is possible to include a JSP using a custom HttpServletResponse so your app server's engine is used and there are standalone JSP engines but both these solutions seemed kludgy (capturing an include is not straightforward and adding a second JSP engine just to manipulate strings is overkill). There are also numerous templating engines, we liked StringTemplate (http://www.stringtemplate.org/) for instance.
But in the end, we sticked to rolling out our own "engine". The code for it is as simple as this /** * @param fields - if param's key begins with _ it is replaced in the first pass, so it can contain ${} references to params replaced in second pass */ private String fillInTemplate(String tmpl, Map<String, String> fields) { for (int pass = 1; pass <= 2; pass++) { for (String field : fields.keySet()) { if (field.startsWith("_") || pass == 2) { tmpl = tmpl.replace("${" + (field.startsWith("_") ? field.substring(1) : field) + "}", fields.get(field) != null ? fields.get(field) : ""); } } } return tmpl; } HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users