Accessing ServletContext outside of a servlet

Question

I wonder if anyone can advise on a Java webapp question?

I have a set standard Java class which has methods to set and get values of a property file. These methods a

Answer 1

If you happen to use Spring then you don't have to implement your own ServletContextListener. You can use Spring's ContextLoaderListener which implements it and if registered then stores the servletContext and makes it available via a static method for later use.

Registration in web.xml:

    org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

Then accessing the servletContext outside of a servlet is easy:

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener;

ServletContext servletContext = 
  ContextLoaderListener.getCurrentWebApplicationContext().getServletContext();