Scope of variables in declarations

[Ryan Day]

I found the following in a Struts book that shall remain nameless to protect the guilty:

Similarly, any variables that are defined with a JSP declaration are local to the service( ) method:

<%! String test = "test value"; %>

This doesn't look right to me, don't variables declared in declarations become instance variables?

So what scope would they fall into?
page
request
session
application

[Christophe Verré]

This doesn't look right to me, don't variables declared in declarations become instance variables?

You're right, they become accessible globally to the page. The scope is the page.

[Krishna Srinivasan]

<%! String test = "test value"; %>

Yes, this become instance varibale for the jsp page. only the variables declared inside scriptlet becomes local variable like :

<%
int i =10;
%>