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JSP Scopes
	Implicit Object	Description
1	pageScope	Scoped variables from page scope
2	requestScope	Scoped variables from request scope
3	sessionScope	Scoped variables from session scope
4	applicationScope	Scoped variables from application scope
5	param	Request parameters as strings
6	paramValues	Request parameters as collections of strings
7	header	HTTP request headers as strings
8	headerValues	HTTP request headers as collections of strings
9	initParam	Context-initialization parameters
10	cookie	Cookie values
11	pageContext	The JSP PageContext object for the current page

So session and sessionScope are same but differs in context they are used. More specifically session is object and sessionScope is map (key, value) of Attribute and its value.

• If you say ${session.sessionAttr} it refers to session object available to JSP page.
• If you say ${sessionScope.sessionAttr} it refers to IMPLICIT session object available to EL.
• Or if you just say {attrName} it will search attrName in all scope from page to application scope.

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