WebSphere V3.5 Handbook

6.7. JSP 1.1

While the best practice of splitting application logic and data presentation into servlets and JSPs provides a number of benefits to Web application developers, the practice does have one drawback. In practice, JSPs tend to fill up with embedded Java code, which makes that logic harder to edit and debug than if it were entered into a Java IDE. The Java code tends to be simple code for controlling which sections of the JSP source get processed, iterating over a bean’s indexed property, or for interacting with system, runtime, or other business objects. While the Java code seems to be common across many JSPs and fits into a small number of simple patterns, it still significantly raises the level of skills required to author a JSP. ...