Accessing Servlet Context

[Ratheesh Narayanan]

Hi,

How costly is it, to retrive a string data from ServletContext on every request?

I have a RequestListener which will retrive two string values from a ServletContext on every request and data in these strings will be same across all the requests, it doesn't change. What would you suggest? Write a raw code to fetch out the strings on every request or a wrapper data object which maintain the strings once its initialized?

Thanks in advance!
Ratheesh

[Ulf Dittmer]

Is there any particular reason you can't store the values in static fields in the listener object?

[Ratheesh Narayanan]

Yes, it's a good decision!

Even I was thinking of maintaining this in a static field, but it was not primary solution for me, till I see your reply. You made me to re-think.

Thanks a lot!