You could also deploy to an webapp container and use JSP.

The one I used most was Freemarker. It seems to have caught on. A
brilliant but impossibly egotistical guy I used to work with did much
of the design. I quit the job because I found him too stressful to
work with. Freemarker  is somewhat more straightforward that usual.

For a whacking huge list of them see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/framework.html

What is with people that the always was to reinvent the wheel rather
than produce the first of breed of thousand of apps that go begging.
Similarly programmers love to create yet another SQL engine.  Perhaps
it is just the lack of skill in designing programs rather than coding
to a spec or doing a minor theme and variations on some other program.