You ain't ugly, you can kiss me if you like

I spent most of the day yesterday working on a single JSP. After meeting the new requirements, dynamic boxes popping and hiding everywhere, the class exceeded the 64k limit.

Since I had already tilized the project, extracting the header, footer and JavaScript validation there was nowhere to turn but the morass of filthy scriptlet in the body itself.

a servlet by another name 
does _not_ a good presentation layer make

It took my most of the day to figure out what the hell was happening, about 2 hours to extract all the usebean references and convert ugliness to jsp tags and move the logic to the action class.

But the end of the day, there is not a single <% %> in sight and the body is in 5 "@ include" files - and JAVAC is no longer pooping it's pants.

A bit painful, but satisfying in the end - like crazy good sex ;)