Can I use a JSP template without an HTTP servlet?

Question

I want to use a template with a markup standard such as JSP to create an HTML formatted string based on data from a bean or a bean container.

Essentially, I just want a standalone service that will take a JSP formatted template and a POJO and return an HTML string.

public String generatePage(String jspFormattedString, List<Object> data){
   ..some stuff
   return htmlString;
}

Is this possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, it is. Use a JSP engine like GnuJSP , Apache Jakarta or Resin . There's a tutorial how to use Jasper 2 engine with an ant task to compile the JSP pages.