Not when rendering the description in JSP, where we want links from the beginning to avoid unnecessary slowdowns on the client at page launch (at least I think it should be done at the server). The alternative would be to introduce a scriptlet in JSP, but that is not very popular among developers: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3180202
Another alternative, which I tried, is to inline this method in JSP using Expression Language (${}), but that would give us very repetitive code.