I am learning the portlet API (I am familiar with web apps), and am using the tutorial apps and the portlet spec as my guide. Overall, seems like a typical-ish web app.

The one thing I noticed, is the the jsp's for the tutorials are being placed under the web-inf directory. I understand that having the files under the web-inf directory makes them inaccessible to call the jsps directly, but "Portlets are not directly bound to a URL", so why place the jsp's under the web-inf directory in the first place and does it really matter?
Thanks in advance,
-Dave