Using JSP&Servlets with Spring

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi.
My application uses Spring and plain servlets and JSP as a presentation layer.
In the application there is on object that uses a HibernateDao in order to access the database.
How can get an instance of that object that I have configured in Spring context file ?
(In a similar way of using factory.getBean( ))
Should I create a resolver such the following when I'm using JSP an Servlets ?
What does a resolver do ?

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
  <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
  <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
  <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>

Thanks for help.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Add the following to your web.xml

<listener>     <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

And then do the following when needing an instance of your wired bean...

ApplicationContext appContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
MyBean myBean = (MyBean)appContext.getBean("myBean");