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You can access the standard JSP objects from within your page. However, some of the objects are portal implementations and not the standard Java implementations, and therefore provide different functionality.

Objects

The following table shows the JSP objects accessible from within a JSP page:

Object

Class

Description

request

javax.servlet.ServletRequest

Standard request object

response

com.sapportals.portal.prt. IPortalComponentResponse

Portal response object

pageContext

javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext

Standard page context for this JSP page.

(The forward functionality is not supported.)

componentRequest

com.sapportals.portal.prt. IPortalComponentRequest

Portal component request object

session

javax.servlet.http.HttpSession

Standard session object

application

javax.servlet.ServletContext

Standard servlet context

out

javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter

Standard object for writing to output stream

config

javax.servlet.ServletConfig

Standard object for writing to output stream

page

com.sapportals.portal.prt. IPortalComponentContext

Standard servlet configuration object

exception

java.lang.Throwable

Standard exception object, for use by error pages to view the error that caused the page to be called.

Directives

The following directives have special implementations: