Prerequistes

Configuration

If you use maven, add this to your pom.xml

<dependencies>
(...)
 
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.sitemesh</groupId>
    <artifactId>sitemesh</artifactId>
    <version>${sitemesh.version}</version>
  </dependency>
 
(...)
</dependencies>

Update WebConfig to add sitemesh filter

public class WebConfig extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {
(...)
 
@Override
    protected Filter[] getServletFilters() {
        CharacterEncodingFilter characterEncodingFilter = new CharacterEncodingFilter();
        characterEncodingFilter.setEncoding("UTF-8");
        return new Filter[] { characterEncodingFilter, new ConfigurableSiteMeshFilter()};
    }
 
(...)
}

Now ./src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/sitemesh3.xml :

<sitemesh>
    <mapping path="/*" decorator="/WEB-INF/decorators/layout.jsp"/>
</sitemesh>

Now ./src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/decorators/layout.jsp :

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
	pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
 
<!DOCTYPE html>
 
<html>
<head>
<sitemesh:write property='head'/>
</head>
 
<body>
 
    <div id="content">
        <sitemesh:write property='body'>Body goes here.</sitemesh:write>
    </div>
 
</body>
</html>

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Java Spring - SiteMesh

Prerequistes

Configuration