why there is no getCookie(cookie name) function?

[jamil lusa]

as my topic stated, is there any reason why there is no such function exist? why we only can get a array of cookie instead of a particular one?

[Ram Narayan.M]

It would be good if they have added that method also... We will have to write self to retrieve specific cookie from Array of Cookies in Pure Java class based Servlet...

But while writing in JSP level, you have the facility to get a particular cookie using EL predefined attribute "cookie" ...Eg., ${cookie.<name of cookie>}