storing objects in pageContext

As per my understanding calling pageContext.setAttribute(key,object) stores the object in page scope.My question is whether it is stored inside pageContext.Means like implicit Object, requestScope and applicationScope,pageContext is also a map.(or)pageContext is just a way to store the objects inside any of the scopes.

Are Objects with page scope stored in the PageContext(implicit object)???

Hi Varun,
the inheritance tree for PageContext:
java.lang.Object
extended by javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext
extended by javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext
Please refer the excellent JSP API Javadocs.
Hope this answers your question.

Kaveriappa MP
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Thanks for your reply.
I want to reframe my question a little bit.

Attributes stored in request scope are stored in Implicit object requestScope(map).Similarly where pageScope attributes are stored?

Since PageContext is not an object,page Scope attributes cannot be stored in pageContext.Am i correct?

Since PageContext is not an object,page Scope attributes cannot be stored in pageContext.Am i correct?

I suggest that you read the javadocs for javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext - an abstract Class.

There is a nice discussion of all of the facilities that a PageContext supplies.
Bill

The request object stores its attributes in some way.
The pageContext object stores its attributes in some way.

How these objects store their attributes is irrelevant to you.
They could be stored in a map (and probably are) but they don't have to be.
The implicit objects revealed to EL as Maps: pageScope, requestScope, sessionScope etc etc are seperate.

So you have two implicit variables.
pageContext - for accessing the pageContext object
pageScope - for accessing the attributes stored in the pageContext. It gets them by calling pageContext.getAttribute()

Does that clear things up?

Thanks to all for the reply