I'm looking for a framework that is better and easier to use than Apache Tiles (which so far, I have used a couple of times).
With Tiles, it seems that when I have 100 actions I need to creates 100 jsp files and create 100 definitions in tiles.xml.
Is there a better framework to manage my templates? I want to create, for example, 2 templates:
a) menu and column for content
b) menu, column for content, right column with banner
In both templates the menu is constant. In template b, the right column is constant, so only the content column is different. For this simple example I don't want to define each JSP file that extends the template a (just to provide a body). Thats lame imo. Or maybe I`m lame and I can define a DEFAULT template in Apache Tiles and I'm just not using it right. In anycase, all help appreciated.
I ended up using JSF + Facelets. I`ve combined them with Spring MVC and it works like a charm.