can we use servletcontext in a normal java class

[Samanthi perera]

can we use servletcontext in a normal java class?

[Ulf Dittmer]

Do you think you can? If so, why is that? If not, why not?

[Goutham Pallipati]

Any Object in fact can be used in any Java Class.

But to obtain the ServletContext Object you need a servlet and further it can be passed to any Class as method parameter and can be used.

Hope this helps. If you are trying to pass it to remote Object remember that it will be Pass by Value also I am not sure if ServletContext is serialized or not.

[Ben Souther]

Goutham Pallipati wrote:
But to obtain the ServletContext Object you need a servlet ...

Not true.
The methods of the listener interfaces provided by the servlet spec all take an argument that contains everything you would need to gain access to the resources in the application.

[David Newton]

And as much as possible, your application's classes should not be tied to the servlet spec--it makes testing and refactoring more difficult.