Is it a bad idea to use .jsp in terms of SEO?

Which platform is the most SEO friendly?

[Stronkie]

I have a client who's site is built entirely out of Flash.
We are going to make some content rich pages with useful information, tips, news etc that will live on more search engine friendly pages.
Their development agency wish to use .jsp but I'm not sure that's the best option.

Any ideas, suggestions, resources, recommendations?

[txbakers]

jsp is fine. It's the most robust platform available today, but also the most difficult to learn.

Search Engines only read text files. JSP produces plain HTML just like all the other technologies.

[Iguana]

If you use Struts (a java framework) to build your site then you can end up with some truly horrendous URLs that will choke Googlebot.

Make sure that the development agency are aware of keeping every page URL simple with no sessionids and the maximum of 2 parameters after the "page.jsp" (ideally no parameters) and no parameters named "id="

[Stronkie]

Thanks chaps