JSP vs Velocity what is better?

Question

What is better between JSP and velocity in - Performance - Ease of use - Ease of creating reusable components - Availability of open source 3rd parties - IDE support

Answer 1

The advantages of Velocity as per above miss a couple of very important things from the engineers perspective:

• strict separation of view from business logic (as above)
• simple syntax that can be understood by graphic designers (as above)
• compact code that is less of a nightmare to revisit later, see example link
• non-servlet container deployment means easy deploy anywhere

Those last two really make Velocity useful compared to JSP.