Jsp versus JSP/SERVLET

Hello folks! :)
First of all, I would like to apologize for posting such a question. I suppose with hardly any doubt that it has been raised a lot of times and I feel a little bit ashamed to put it another time... but fact is that I browsed the forum and did not found any real complete and technical answer.
So, here is my question:
I have to convince my technical superior (with concrete fact, numbers if possible!)that using SERVLET/JSP is a better way than using only JSP (which is the way they do thing at the time I post this message - everything is done in JSP).
I did not found any "rocking" argument that demonstrate the benefits of using jsp for application.
Boss said me "Jsp is just hidden SERVLET, so why not using them" and "we do not have complicated FORMS submission to treat, so JSP are good enough." and "graphical department doesn't work a lot on HTML. So no prob with scriplets".
I suppose it's ok for now and for "small" projects; but I sense that in the coming future, that will probably become a problem with bigger project.
So I would like to convince them to start working with servlets now, to avoid future waste of time!
Thanks or your wise upcoming answers!

well, there is a fact that servlets and jsp can be used for exactly the same purpose. A JSP page is through a JSP engine transformed to a servlet. You just put servlet code inside the <% and %>. However, the benefit of using servlets is that it is more like pure java-code, and clean from annoying tags. Using JSP also requires you to learn about the functionality behind tags. Also, in using JSP there are more difficult to control errors. In my experience it is really difficult to know where the fault lies in the JSP compared to the servlet.
I think that it seems like you are quite convinced that servlets are the right choice, and this is what matters if you are the developer.
Good luck,
M

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