[FIXED] JSP not printing the object correctly

Issue

I started learning Spring MVC and created a controller, added a dummy object in ModelAndView:

 modelAndView.addObject("pageContext", pageContext);

Tried to access it in JSP like this:

<div>${pageContext}</div>

But, it's printing an output like:

org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl@3085ff7b

Shouldn't it print the exact object output? Using tomcat 9 and jdk8.

Could anyone please point out what might be missing?

Solution

pageContext is the name of an implicit JSP object. Try naming something else the object you insert in the model.

modelAndView.addObject("someObject", theObject );

Answered By - codependent