ENOUGH REASON TO CHANGE FROM WRITING SCRIPLETS IN MY JSP AND MIGRATE TO EL AND JSTL.
1. JSTL and EL were introduced to "Replace" all the scriptlet needs in your JSP's. That's because JSP are meant to be "View related" as mentioned by Bear Bibeault, They provide the elegant and simple way of declaring what you want with all the
Java code at the background.
One of the important reasons is that the "View" Aspects in any major projects are handled by "Designers" who may not be "Programmers" and hence, they are much more comfortable to "Read" or "create" JSP views using "Tags" rather than "Code".
2. Easy to Read, Maintain and Create JSP's with JSTL and EL.
3. Code Reusability. The tags are reusable but not the scriptlets which you create... unless you copy paste them
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[ November 19, 2008: Message edited by: srikanth nutigattu ]