Ah my Jhtml days.. what a fresh and creative time that was.
I remember the exhiliration when after weeks of toiling I hand-designed a Jhtml templating engine, simple and powerful enough to feel on top of the content management and html production I was in charge of.
Here is a bit I wrote on My Jhtml from ATG's Dynamo Server One Page Dynamic tempalting engine i wrote with Inline Java.
http://dev.4arrow.com/documentation/index.xpc?op=view_doc&docid=30