Case Study: XMLC vs. Velocity

I got a laugh out of this "case study."

http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/casestudy2.html

I've never used Velocity, but after working with JSP for the past 3 
years I've come to the conclusion that it is the _wrong_ way to do web 
development.  The biggest thing that bothers me is the lack of compile 
time sanity checking.  JSP promised a separation of code and HTML.  
You've gotta be kidding me if you think it accomplished its goal.  If 
anything JSP leads to nothing but a big inconsistent, poorly 
maintained, highly fragile, unmaintainable nightmare.  Ugh.  I'm trying 
to get away from JSP/custom tags/Struts and move towards a servlet+XMLC 
world.  I think life will be much nicer there.
  -M@