Cool tool of the day: Sitemesh

Why Use SiteMesh?

SiteMesh is a lightweight and flexible Java web application framework that applies the Gang of Four decorator pattern to allow a clean separation of content from presentation.

I am posting it here as I have used this tool before and really like it but I just spent 10 minutes attempting to recall what it was called.

The jars for site mesh can be found on the Maven repository or but pasting this into your POM.xml:


<dependency>
    <groupId>opensymphony</groupId>
    <artifactId>sitemesh</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.2</version>
</dependency>