java - Dynamic menu and titles in JSP -

for example, have 2 pages, left menu , use layout tags. tag left menu:

<%@tag description="left panel" pageencoding="utf-8" %> <%@taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" %> <%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %> <%@attribute name="page" required="true"%> <ul>     <!-- dashboard -->     <li <c:if test="${page == 'dashboard'}">class="active"</c:if>>        <a href="<c:url value='/dashboard'/>">                        <spring:message code="navigation.button.dashboard"/>        </a>     </li>     <!-- settings -->     <li <c:if test="${page == 'settings'}">class="active"</c:if>>        <a href="<c:url value='/settings/'/>">             <spring:message code="navigation.button.settings"/>        </a>     </li> </ul> 

for view active menu use variable page , in spring controller set model attribute, example:

@controller @requestmapping(value = "/settings") public final class settingcontroller {         @modelattribute("page")     public final string getpage() { return "settings";}      @requestmapping(value = "/")     public final string home(final principal principal) {         if (principal == null) return "login";         return "settings";     } } 

for title of page used page attribute too. think not best way. maybe knows best way dynamic view active menu , title of page?