Question

is their a neat way to pass a model to jsp, render the jsp and return the html as string using Spring. The html is then used in an e-mail that is fired off programmitcally, I do not want to use freemarker, but maybe I should ?

The url being requested is part of the same app.

I want one of my service layer classes to be able to call a view and use the html as a String.

Answer 1

You can call requestDispatcher.include(request, response) method.

You will need to implement the request and response objects. The request object will provide all information to the dispatcher which page should be rendered, the response object you will pass to the call will then capture the result to a string (using e.g. a StringBuilder).

See e.g. this tutorial for more info.