The earth goes round the sun, the moon goes round the earth, JSP sucks.

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So anyway, although I do realise that JSP came a long before MVC was applied to webapp development, but WTF is a templating solution doing setting the MIME type on my response?

This is not even taking into account the stupid, stupid, requirement to compile JSPs into Java files and then Java classes, meaning that there are twice as many places for compilation errors, and twice as many places for logical errors, and a PIA to write a decent IDE for, Hell! JSP is never a good idea. But it's standard.