How to use session in JSP pages to get information?

Question

I have a JSP page used for editing some user\'s info. When a user logins to the website, I keep the information in the session, then in my edit page I try the following:

Answer 1

JSP implicit objects likes session, request etc. are not available inside JSP declaration <%! %> tags.

You could use it directly in your expression as

Username: 
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On other note, using scriptlets in JSP has been long deprecated. Use of EL (expression language) and JSTL tags is highly recommended. For example, here you could use EL as

Username: 

The best part is that scope resolution is done automatically. So, here username could come from page, or request, or session, or application scopes in that order. If for a particular instance you need to override this because of a name collision you can explicitly specify the scope as

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