First attempt to remove JSP and move to Thymeleaf and update to Spring Boot. The Thymeleaf templates can be loaded as snippets which makes it more easy to move away from ECS and create normal HTML pages for a lesson.

webgoat-container/src/main/resources/static/js/goatApp/controller/MenuController.js

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+define(['jquery',
+	'underscore',
+	'backbone',
+	'goatApp/view/MenuView'
+	], 
+	function($,
+		_,
+		Backbone,
+		MenuView) {
+		 Controller = function(options){
+		 	_.extend(Controller.prototype,Backbone.Events);
+			options = options || {};
+			this.menuView = options.menuView;
+			this.titleView = options.titleView;
+
+		 	// this.initMenu = function() {
+		 	// 	this.listenTo(this.menuView,'lesson:click',this.renderTitle);
+		 	// }
+
+		 	this.updateMenu = function(){
+		 		this.menuView.updateMenu();
+		 	},
+
+		 	//TODO: move title rendering into lessonContent/View pipeline once data can support it
+		 	this.renderTitle = function(title) {
+		 		this.titleView.render(title);
+		 	}
+
+
+		 };
+
+		 return Controller;
+});