JSP Maintainability

• Scriptlets and declarations hurt JSP maintainability
• JSP is maintainable if it is primarily markup
• With JSP 2.0, some think scriptlets and declarations are not needed at all
• Custom tags and the JSP expression language deemphasize scripting elements in favor of encapsulating code in other objects
• Trade-off: these objects must be created with custom Java code.
• Many prefer to use frameworks such as Struts or JavaServer Faces.