Jsp is stupid

I used to program java/jsp a long time ago. I found php and never looked back. Now I have a job where I will be using jsp again. I started reading about what new and I am amazed(in the wrong way)
Before: very simple output
<%= request.getRemoteHost() %>
after: jsp:getproperties, and c:out
tags? Basically someone in sun hell decided that learning servlets, java and jsp was not enough now lets learn new tags. I can create a class with functions to do the same thing.
I did many jsp applications where all the db code was separated into manager classes and the jsp code contains the display code. I never had to use any special tag.
Why the java community keep complicating the languaje instead of making it simpler? PHP does it, why can't JAVA???
I really would like someone to tell me what are you gaining by complicating the language??
Thank you

JSP is not technically a language. It's a way to code web sites with Java. Java, in turn, is a lot more powerful and advanced than PHP. It's only natural, since Java has been in development for much longer than PHP has.
JSP and Java are meant for larger applications. While Java is an agile language, it's not as agile as PHP for small applications. With PHP, wou can code small things very fast.
PHP is suiteable for small scale applications, because it's so incredibly cheap, in both time and money, to get started with. Add to that that the learning curve is very small, and you instantly have the #1 language for one-man websites.
However, once you start growing into a mature and more advanced web application, PHPs agility instead becomes it's own worst enemy, and you have to do a lot of extra coding to get the infrastructure needed that JSP and Java already has in place from the beginning. PHP is also very problematic in the sense that it completely lacks a standard approach to development, which causes loss of time when you are dealing with many developers.

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