Accessing a JSP's impleicit object pageContext in a Servlet?

[Alok Pota]

Is there a way I can get access to a JSP's built-in variable
pageContext in a servlet? Also is there a difference between
the implciti object page & pageContext

[Madhu Juneja]

A Jsp is converted to a servlet. Hence this pageContext is very much accessible in the servlet (in the service method as it a local variable to the service method)
page is equivalent to 'this' variable and pageContext refers to any context that this current page references for eg pageContext has various methods such as getServletConfig(), getSession(), getOut(), getServletContext() methods that a developer can make use of.

[Peter den Haan]

Originally posted by Alok Pota:
Is there a way I can get access to a JSP's built-in variable
pageContext in a servlet?

In a servlet there is no PageContext (unless it's a compiled JSP of course). What do you find in PageContext that you cannot find in HttpRequest or ServletContext?
- Peter