What is the purpose for isErrorPage= true| false?

[Varun Selvanathan]

What is the purpose for isErrorPage= true| false?
I know that the exception object will work only when isErrorPage= true.

Scriptlet <%= exception %> is working if the isErrorPage attribute set as true.
But EL {pagecontext.exception} will work whether true or false.

WHY???

[Durgesh Vaishnav]

Implicit objects in jsp are the objects that are created by the container automatically and the container makes them available to the developers. Exception object has a page scope and this object allows the exception data to be accessed only by designated JSP "error pages. When a JSP page has been declared an errorPage=true, it is made available this object with name of "exception" of type java.lang.Throwable.

in your case, you cann't access exception like {exception}. but it is available via pagecontext.

[Varun Selvanathan]

Thanks Durgesh Vaishnav!
I got the idea.

[Varun Selvanathan]

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