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What is the difference between spring JSP MVC and Thymeleaf MVC? Which one is best way for spring web design ?
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Both solutions work but have some contraints. You have to specify one way or another whether you want to resolve with JSP or Thymeleaf.
From what I read, Thymeleaf is pretty slow compared to other templating languages, while JSP is very fast, with FreeMarker and Velocity coming close. However, Thymeleaf supports natural templates (templates that will render nicely in your browser even if you don't run them through the template engine).
if you are starting new project why jsp. Go with thymeleaf. Spring boot discourage using jsp with embedded tomcat. But if you want2learn check github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/v2.0.5.RELEASE/…
Thymeleaf offers a set of Spring integrations that allow you to use it as a fully-featured substitute for JSP in Spring MVC applications.
Both of them are view layers of Spring MVC. Firstly, the very basic difference is the file extensions. (.jsp & .html)
Branislav in the comments is right, JSP is not a template engine. It's compiled to the servlet and then the servlet is serving web content. On the other hand, Thymeleaf is a template engine which takes the HTML file, parses it and then produces web content which is being served.
Thymeleaf is more like an HTML-ish view when you compare it with JSP views.
We can use prototype code in thymeleaf : http://www.dineshonjava.com/2015/01/thymeleaf-vs-jsp-spring-mvc-view-layer.html#.WEkLzLKLTig
Since it is more HTML-ish code, thymeleaf codes are more readable (of course you can disrupt it and create unreadable codes, but at the end, it will be more readable when you compare it with .jsp files)
Standard Dialect (The expression language) is much more powerful than JSP Expression Language
If we put all this to an edge, thymeleaf is the slow one here.
I would suggest you to take a look at this doc : http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/articles/thvsjsp.html
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