What are JSP EL implicit objects and how it’s different from JSP implicit Objects?

JSP Expression Language provides many implicit objects that we can use to get attributes from different scopes and parameter values. Note that these are different from JSP implicit objects and contains only the attributes in given scope. The only common implicit object in JSP EL and JSP page is pageContext object.

Below table provides list of implicit object in JSP EL.

JSP EL Implicit Objects	Type	Description
pageScope	Map	A map that contains the attributes set with page scope.
requestScope	Map	Used to get the attribute value with request scope.
sessionScope	Map	Used to get the attribute value with session scope.
applicationScope	Map	Used to get the attributes value from application scope.
param	Map	Used to get the request parameter value, returns a single value
paramValues	Map	Used to get the request param values in an array, useful when request parameter contain multiple values.
header	Map	Used to get request header information.
headerValues	Map	Used to get header values in an array.
cookie	Map	Used to get the cookie value in the JSP
initParam	Map	Used to get the context init params, we can’t use it for servlet init params
pageContext	pageContext	Same as JSP implicit pageContext object, used to get the request, session references etc. example usage is getting request HTTP Method name.