What is a good template engine?

I want your suggestions on good template engine. My project is almost done and ready to go to production in few weeks, I want something which is easy to learn yet good enough.
Following are my specific requirements:
1) We have like 150 jsps (not too many), but I want a template engine which lets me add a header, footer and other links easily to all these pages to start with.
2) Later on I want a rule based template engine which changes the layout of page based on rules. For example UI for a role based web site, like Admin sees different tabs on the menu bar than a normal user.
Thanks for your help

For what you are suggesting, I'd look at tiles.
If you were wanting to do something more sophisticated and data drive things, then maybe you would look at Freemarker or Velocity. Not much t choose between these.

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Sun could have done it. Instead they copied Microsoft's bad practices in order to compete.
What would you think? I've put together an example of how JSP could have been implemented. I've called it Axle and I'm looking to make it a free, open-source project if anyone is interested.
Check out the following page for more info. Try downloading the 'bookstore' example. Let me know what you think.
http://www.ibatis.com/axle/axle.html
Best regards,
Clinton.

I believe there are a number of jsp based template
engines available on jakarta.apache.org as well. Well, yes and no. There are JSP custom tag libraries (Struts) and there are template engines (Velocity). Axle takes the best of both of these worlds. It allows developers to leverage their JSP skills, while working with the benefits of a template engine.
It will still suck to get a java server working alongside
a normal http server.Most of the big name web servers already support Java and JSP. iPlanet Web Server 6, Apache (Tomcat, JServ). In addition, you could always buy a completely separate App server like JRun or WebLogic.
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People have such different views of what makes a "good" keyboard, GTGeek, that it is almost impossible to make suggestions without getting a better idea of what your requirements are.
I grew up using manual typrewiters (Olivetti Lettera 32's etc), migrated to IBM and Brother electrics, and then nearly 30 years of different computer and data terminal keyboards.
In the early years, perhaps not surprisingly, the closer a computer got to approximating that of an IBM golfball the happier I was. Few computer keyboards seemed to have the "feel" or travel that I was used to. Despite this i gradually found I adapted to almost all of them.
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The older white Apple Bluetooth keyboards had more travel , and more sculpting and a nice feeling of "solidity", but can only be found second hand these days.
I personally like the Apple Pro wired keyboards in days gone by, but, as with the white bluetooth they are now history.
I have two Logitech wireless and and a Microsoft USB keyboard tucked away in the draw (together with just about every keyboard Apple have ever made) . The Logitech and MS ones feel very "plasticky" compared to Apple offerings, but, as I said, I have simply adapted to the latter over time. You might find them fine if that is what you are used to.
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