Everyone using JSTL?

[Mike London]

From reading books like the "Head First Servlets" (great book, by the way), I got the feeling that (JSP) scriptlets are O-U-T and LSTL is IN-IN-IN.

Is this the reality of the way most people are coding these days for JSPs.

Now that JSP 2.0 looks a lot like the wickedly popular ColdFusion, I'm wondering if it's time to get a book, hunker down, and just transition to JSTL.

Thoughts anyone?

-- Mike

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes, adopting JSTL, EL and scritless pages is the best thing you could do for yourelf (and anyone who will ever need to touch your pages).

[Mike London]

Thanks.

[Joseph Hatton]

I agree with Bear. Not that scriplets are bad, but implicitly we see it as a negative coding practice.

[Jeroen Wenting]

I'm trying to get the rest of the team in our company to adopt JSTL. Kinda tough as they're just getting used to scriptlets

[Paul Bourdeaux]

Scriptless pages are definately the way to go... but if you work in an environment that is anything like mine, you will find yourself maintaining a lot of jsp that relys heavily on scriptlets. When developing new applications (or if you are lucky enough to completely refactor an older one), I say go with JSTL and EL.