The easiest way to get started with Dust is to start with one of the examples. The examples are available at:
https://github.com/LevelFourAB/dust-examples
These examples are built using Maven and show off certain features of Dust. Use jetty:run in a project to run it.
dust-example-simple
This is a simple example that contains one namespace containing a single page.
dust-example-layout
An example that shows how to create a common layout component. This examples also shows how to use several namespaces.