SiteMesh

概述：

SiteMesh 是一个网页布局和修饰的框架，利用它可以将网页的内容和页面结构分离，以达到页面结构共享的目的。Sitemesh是由一个基于Web页面布局、装饰以及与现存Web应用整合的框架。它能帮助我们在由大量页面构成的项目中创建一致的页面布局和外观，如一致的导航条，一致的banner，一致的版权，等等。
它不仅仅能处理动态的内容，如jsp，php，asp等产生的内容，它也能处理静态的内容，如htm的内容，使得它的内容也符合你的页面结构的要求。甚至于它能将HTML文件象include那样将该文件作为一个面板的形式嵌入到别的文件中去。

SiteMesh框架是OpenSymphony团队开发的一个非常优秀的页面装饰器框架，它通过对用户请求进行过滤，并对服务器向客户端响应也进行过滤，然后给原始页面加入一定的装饰(header,footer等)，然后把结果返回给客户端。通过SiteMesh的页面装饰，可以提供更好的代码复用，所有的页面装饰效果耦合在目标页面中，无需再使用include指令来包含装饰效果，目标页与装饰页完全分离，如果所有页面使用相同的装饰器，可以是整个Web应用具有统一的风格。

项目主页：

http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/

官方：

What Is It?

• SiteMesh is a web-page layout and decoration framework and web- application integration framework to aid in creating large sites consisting of many pages for which a consistent look/feel, navigation and layout scheme is required.

• SiteMesh intercepts requests to any static or dynamically generated HTML page requested through the web-server, parses the page, obtains properties and data from the content and generates an appropriate final page with modifications to the original. This is based upon the well-known GangOfFour Decorator design pattern.

• SiteMesh can also include entire HTML pages as a Panel within another page. This is similar to a Server-Side Include, except that the HTML document will be modified to create a visual window (using the document's Meta-data as an aid) within a page. Using this feature, Portal type web sites can be built very quickly and effectively. This is based upon the well-known GangOfFour Composite design pattern.

• SiteMesh is built using Java 2 with Servlet, JSP and XML technologies. This makes it ideal for use with J2EE applications, however it can be integrated with server-side web architectures that are not Java based such as CGI (Perl/Python/C/C++/etc), PHP, Cold Fusion, etc...

• SiteMesh is very extensible and is designed in a way in which it is easy to extend for custom needs.