Unable to get the Attribute value

[bhanwala Anish]

I am passing Name from html page to jsp.
<input type="textArea" name="name">

And trying to show the value in output of jsp page as:
Name is: ${name}

It works with ${param.name} but ${name} gives me NULL.

Can someone please explain me why

[bhanwala Anish]

I think i got the answer.
"param" is used when the parameters are passed in by GET/POST methods. And to access attributes set in various scope you can use the attribute name directly within ${}. But if we have attribute with same name in different scope we can use implicit objects like requestScope, pageScope etc.

Am i correct?

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes, do not confuse request parameters with scoped variables (what you are calling "attributes"). They are distinct concepts.