[ecshafer]

I wonder why more java frameworks don't reuse the parsing from JSP, but just drop the servlett part. Though maybe that's not as easily done as said.

[xxs]

JSP literally compiles/translates to Servlets, as in extends them in the code, and everything you see is in their 'service' method effectively. JSP can consider JSP alike to C's preprocessor.

[drdec]

JSPs are implemented by transpiling them into servlets, so JSPs without the servlets doesn't really save anything (assuming you want to re-use what's out there).