hi Joe,
Implementing the ResourceLoaderAware interface has solved my problem.
many thanks!

i havent tried to use ServletContextAware but I think it will work
equally well.

many thanks

Jeff

On 31 Jan 2007, at 16:38, Joe Germuska wrote:

> Jeff:
>
> I think there are a lot of possible routes, but I'm not sure I
> understand
> your goal.
>
> Could you just have your service implement ResourceLoaderAware? If
> your
> Spring ApplicationContext is a WebApplicationContext (as it would
> be if set
> up by ContextLoaderListener), then the ResourceLoader would check the
> ServletContext for resources in addition to the class path, etc.
>
> If you don't want your service to implement a Spring interface,
> there are
> some Spring beans that help bridge the gap, briefly name-checked here
> http://www.interface21.com/news-home/2005/spring-1.1.4-released  
> These
> mostly just let you apply ServletContext attributes to Spring beans in
> various ways without binding your code to the Servlet API.
>
> My hunch is trusting that the ResourceLoaderAware is the right
> solution,
> especially now that I realize that if you're passing in a
> ServletContextResource, then you've already accepted the Spring API
> into
> your service layer.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Joe
>
> On 1/31/07, Jeffrey Hau <jh398@(protected):
>>
>> 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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