SiteMesh - still active? v2 vs v3?

I'm evaluating SiteMesh for use in our web applications. I've found two websites for SiteMesh

• version 2.4 (Jan 2009) -> http://www.opensymp开发者_开发技巧hony.com/sitemesh/
• version 3.0 (Sep 2009) -> http://www.sitemesh.org/

Looks like the same author is involved in both (Joe Walnes). So my question is - is SiteMesh still in active development? Are the two versions I found both stable? Is one deprecated? Are there any other alternatives to SiteMesh? We are looking for a tool that can act as a reverse proxy to a number of different web applications to apply a consistent look and feel, controlled separately from the apps. SiteMesh appears to be able to do that.. I think.

Sitemesh is being used by Grails, so I don't think it's abandoned.

As an alternative, I would take a look to JTidy (if those sites are not already showing XHTML) to obtain well-formed XML and then parse or transform it with XSLT.

Regards.

Sitemesh 3.0 still seems to be in alpha stage so 2.4.2 is the stable release to go for.

Sitemesh is a white labelling framework applied over your web app UI pages. It is not a 'reverse proxy' actually but a decorator.

SiteMesh would be the perfect tool for your job. The current stable release is from the 2.x branch and works like a charm.

GitHub says the last check-in to SiteMesh 3 was in January 2010 which suggests that is is not being actively developed anymore, which is really sad.