Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi all!

I'm in a bit of a dilema. As the least knowledgable member of our small development group (3 people incl. me) I'm caught in the middle of a pretty fierce debate over whether or not to we should implement JSP.

Currently to seperate business logic from presentation we have our servlets pass XML to the browser and then the browser renders the HTML using the appropriate .xsl (sometimes we use server-side transformation).

Now one of the guys wants to use MVC/Struts and JSPs in order to create a much needed UI for an application. The plan is to not put any Java code in the JSP (seperation of logic and presentation - good, business logic in both the JSP and Servlet - bad.) but the other guy is still vehemently against it.

He says that anything JSP can do we can already do with XML/XSLT and to add JSP to our environment would complicate things.

And while I agree with him there, there are some things that when you do them with JSPs make the code more readable and transparent.

If you had to take a side, which one would you choose?

Has anyone else out there already gone through this debate? I'd be interested in knowing the outcome.

Thanks,

John