How to acess servlet context variables from java class

[chinna kumar]

This is my servlet:::::

ServletContext context=getServletContext();
context.setAttribute("Imsi",imsi);
context.setAttribute("Msisdn",msisdn);
context.setAttribute("Sim",sim);


now we need to access these variables from java class file raher than jsp file.
cud anyone help me out???


Chinna

[Serghei Jelauc]

Why do not you declare a ServletContext instance variable and create the setter method for it in your java class for example? Something like this:

public void setContext(ServletContext context) {
this.context = context;
}

After that you can use the context as usual: context.getAttribute("Sim");

[chinna kumar]

Hi,
i tried this but this does not work.

this is the modification i have done

ServletContext context;

now am trying access value using: context.getAttribute("Sim");

it says context needs to be initialized, for this is it possible to intialize without setter method as ServletContext context=getServletContext(); but this too does work..........

please help me out...
Chinna

[Neeraj Dheer]

yes, you can always do a context = getServletContext() without any issues.

just curious : have you over-ridden the init() method of the servlet, if yes, then have you called super.init(config) in it?

[Ben Souther]

I prefer that my beans are container unaware.
If I needed to do something like this, I would put all the variables that need to be shared into one object and bind that to context scope.
then I would pass a reference to that object to any beans that need it's properties.