title: Variables in jsp pages with "included" pages
body: <p>What are the scoping rules for variables in a jsp page with pages added to them using  tags?</p>
  
  <p>My understanding is that an included page is essentially copied verbatim into the page, which would lead me to assume that if I've declared a variable in a Parent JSP that it would be available in the child ones.</p>
  
  <p>However Eclipse complains about this (understandably because I could feasibly include the pages in any page or use them as stand alone. And when I try to start the tomcat server it fails to start.</p>
  
  <p>I basically want to get a couple of variables from the session in the parent page and use them in the child pages. This doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>So I've struck ont he idea of getting them from the session in each of the child pages, however I was wondering if I could give them all the same variable names, or if I'd have to pick different variable names for them in each page so they didn't clash.</p>
  
  <p>Also what about imports if I import log4net in the parent jss do I also have to import it in the child ones?</p>