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JSP Implicit Objects

There are 9 jsp implicit objects. These objects are created by the web container that are available to all the jsp pages.

The available implicit objects are out, request, config, session, application etc.

A list of the 9 implicit objects is given below:

Object	Type
out	JspWriter
request	HttpServletRequest
response	HttpServletResponse
config	ServletConfig
application	ServletContext
session	HttpSession
pageContext	PageContext
page	Object
exception	Throwable

1) JSP out implicit object

For writing any data to the buffer, JSP provides an implicit object named out. It is the object of JspWriter. In case of servlet you need to write:

But in JSP, you don't need to write this code.

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Example of out implicit object

In this example we are simply displaying date and time.

index.jsp

Output

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