Jsp maintenance problem

Question

Greetings...
There are some vendors(appx. 10, which is expected to increase in future) doing branding of their websites for our application. As part of this integration we need to provide them with header & footer html assets (html, javascript, css and images). We have some options here for this integration
1. The first option is to bundle all the header and footer htmls and the related assets (js,css,images) and send them directly. In this case if there is any small change in the contents then we have to re-distribute all the files again which would be a maintenance nightmare as the number of vendors will increase.
2. The second option is to host those header/footer on our servers and provide them with some interface so that they can include those header and footer in their pages.
I thoght of one option to use the jstl "c:import" option. But this is to the condition if the vendor is using the JSP 1.2 (?) or above which supports the use of jstl.
We are using WAS 5.1, JSP 1.2, IBM HTTP Server.
Question: What are the best options available for the following scenerios (if we would like to retain the control of the contents (headers/footers etc) so that we don't have to redistribute these files again for any change.)
scenerio 1: The vendor is using JSP 1.2/2.0 ?
scenerio 2: The vendor is using lower version of JSP (may be 1.1) ?
scenerio 3: The vendor is using some other technology for presentation(may be ASP or plain htmls) ?
The header code looks like:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="assets/shared/js/myscript.js" defer></script>
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/shared/css/header.css">
<TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
     <TBODY ...>
          <TR vAlign=top>
               <TD>
                    <IMG src="images/header/blue.gif" border="0" width="119px" height="18px" />
               </TD>
          </TR>
     </TBODY>
</TABLE>
Many Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

<c:if test="${empty param.fname || empty param.lname || empty param.age}">But don't take my word for it, I don't have my tomcat up and running to test it.