1. A method for configuring a document, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, a selection of a plurality of identifiers, wherein information about the identifiers can be presented in the document; determining from a configuration file a plurality of information sources, at the server, that provides the information about the identifiers, look and feel settings for presenting the information about the identifiers in the document, and one or more menu items, for a menu, wherein a different menu is associated with each identifier, to be presented in the document, wherein the one or more menu items include dynamically updated information associated with that identifier, and wherein the one or more menu items are displayed in the menu associated with the selected identifier; generating a reference between the plurality of information sources and the document including generating at least one Java Server Page (JSP) tags in the document, such that when the at least one JSP tags is parsed to render the document; including the reference in the document; wherein the reference comprises instructions for accessing information about the identifiers from the plurality of information sources designated in the configuration file, instructions for accessing from the configuration file the look and feel settings for presenting information about the identifiers in the document, and instructions for presenting in the document the one or more menu items designated in the configuration file including the one or more dynamically updated information item associated with the identifiers; generating markup for the document, wherein the markup, when rendered by a client, enables a client to display the document including the information associated with the plurality of identifiers included in the selection; and returning the markup for the document in response to the selection.