Why there is a need of pageContext in JSP?

Question

When we can access all the implicit variables in JSP, why do we have pageContext ?

My assumption is the following: if we use EL expressions or JSTL, to acc

Answer 1

All 11 implicit EL variables are defined as Map, except the pageContext variable. pageContext variable provides convenient methods for accessing request/response/session attributes or forwarding the request.