JSP vs Velocity Template

[Eduardo]

What should I use to develop the different web pages of my plugin, JSP or Velocity?

Thanks in advance

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

Going through https://developer.atlassian.com/ I only really found references to velocity. Even this page https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-templates-and-jsps/ points to velocity.

Technically, you could use both, but Velocity is much easier to work with on paper (https://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.4/casestudy1.html) and I know you can easily incorporate conditions, inject utils, structure things in an easy to understand way and do some additional code blocks where needed (e.g. to sort tables and such). Can't say I have any experience with jsp beyond plain pages, but at the very least velocity can do it and I never had a reason to think about jsp.