JSP – What is wrong with scriptlets, and what to use instead [duplicate]

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This is my personal opinion, of course. I say scriptlets are:

  1. A 1998 vintage technology that needs to disappear; a failed response to Microsoft’s ASP.
  2. Ugly
  3. Hard to read
  4. Hard to maintain
  5. Discourage reuse and encapsulation
  6. Encourage putting complex logic in pages

What to use instead?

  1. The world has gone in the direction of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and web technologies talking to REST web services. It’s a good direction.
  2. If you must stick with JSPs, start with the JSP standard template library. Keep your HTML pages looking like HTML – it’ll make it easier for UI developers to maintain them.
  3. Try a more modern template solution like Thymeleaf to generate your HTML from the server side.

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