Hi Tom,
I have tried your suggestion, my applicationContex.xml is now defined
as,

<bean id="scFactoryBean" class="StrutsServletContextLoader"/>
  <bean id="servletCtx" factory-bean="scFactoryBean" factory-
method="getServletContext"/>

  <bean id="userService" class="user.RdfUserService">
   <constructor-arg index="0">
     <bean
class="org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResource">
       <constructor-arg index="0" ref="servletCtx"/>
       <constructor-arg index="1" type="java.lang.String" value="/
resources/users.rdf"/>
     </bean>
   </constructor-arg>
  </bean>


my StrutsServletContextLoader class consists of one method

public ServletContext getServletContext() {
   return ServletActionContext.getServletContext();
 }

i am getting error from spring complaining missing servlet context.

You mentioned ServletActionContext needs to the executed within the
context of a webwork request, i think the problem is related to that.
Do you know how can i make my StrutsServletcontextLoader be executed
within a webwork request?

many thanks

Jeff


On 31 Jan 2007, at 13:52, Tom Schneider wrote:

> It would be very easy to create a Spring FactoryBean for this.  
> (Checkout the Spring Documentation if that doesn't make sense)  
> Then, to access the servlet context, just do a:
>
> ServletContext servletContext =
> ServletActionContext.getServletContext();
>
> The FactoryBean would allow you to use dependency injection in
> spring to inject the servlet context into any spring bean. (I'm
> doing a similar thing with some of the our legacy services and
> components) You could even convert the ServletContext into a Map
> to decouple yourself from the servlet API. That way your process
> beans would only be dependent on a Map instead of a
> ServletContext. Keep in mind that the ServletActionContext is a
> thread local, so it must be executed from within the context of a
> webwork request.
> Tom
>
>
> Jeffrey Hau wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>> Thanks for the helpful information. I am just wondering is it
>> possible to get the ServletContext object in my spring
>> applicationContext.xml? What i am trying to do now is to create a
>> Resource object (ServletContextResource) and inject into a service
>> class and then use this service class in a struts action. At the
>> moment, I have to pass in the resource path (as a string) into the
>> action, instantiate the ServletContextResource in the action then
>> pass it to the service class.
>>
>> many thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 31 Jan 2007, at 12:53, Joe Germuska wrote:
>>
>>> You need to make sure that your action is passing through an
>>> interceptor-stack that includes ServletConfigInterceptor
>>>
>>> http://struts.apache.org/2.x/core/apidocs/org/apache/struts2/
>>> interceptor/ServletConfigInterceptor.html
>>>
>>>
>>> The struts-default package does include this.
>>>
>>> http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/struts-defaultxml.html
>>>
>>> Another thing you can do is call the static method
>>> ServletActionContext.getServletContext() but this would be harder
>>> to support
>>> in a unit testing environment. If you implement
>>> ServletContextAware, then
>>> you could provide a mock ServletContext implementation in your
>>> unit test
>>> setup, while you'd have a lot more awkward setup to do to make
>>> sure that
>>> ServletActionContext.getServletContext was prepared to return a
>>> usable
>>> value.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/31/07, Nagraj Rao <nagraj.rao@(protected):
>>>>
>>>> were u actually able to get the servletContext Object thru
>>>> servletContextAware?? I'd tried it but couldn't get it :(
>>>> do we need to do any additional stuff for that??
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jeffrey Hau" <jh398@(protected)>
>>>> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@(protected)>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:55 PM
>>>> Subject: [s2] getting servletContext in actions
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> > If i need to get a servletContext object in my action class, is
>>>> > implementing the ServletContextAware interface the standard way
>>>> of doing
>>>> > this? Is there any other alternatives?
>>>> >
>>>> > thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > Jeff
>>>> >
>>>> >
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