Difference between these 2 methods?

This may be a stupid question, but what is the difference between creating a simple HTML page that directs to a Servlet which produces the dynamic content of the web page, and creating a JSP page that probably still uses the same servlet as mentioned above? Where as the servlet this time probably won't handle any formatting of HTML?

I generally want my servlets generating as little HTML as possible due to maintenance issues. Servlets tend to get large when they generate html and editing them becomes error prone.

Ahh, I c. Thanks.

So the appropriate method then would be:
RequestJSP to Servlet1 to ResponseJSP to Web Browser.
I had read that before, just didn't know if this was generally good practice or if the example just used it as a "you could do it this way" method.

Everything I have read recommends this practice.

Or that Model-View-Controller pattern of:
1) Client request invokes Servlet (Controller)
2) Controller servlet creates JavaBeans (Model)
3) Controller servlet forwards request to JSP (View)
4) JSP uses Beans created by Controller servlet
5) JSP renders response to Client
Neat and tidy

Thanks guys. That's what I needed to know.