On 8/31/05, Rich Feit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I actually agree that a single bean is better than a lot of separate > values under various keys. In Beehive we put most of our request-scoped > values onto a request wrapper -- this turned out to have better > performance than doing the attribute lookup all over the place. But > it's a similar idea.
JSF likes a single "context" bean as well (FacesContext). One choice that JSF also made should be considered here, in terms of providing access ... there's a static FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() method that returns the current context object for the current request thread (it's implemented with a ThreadLocal). The nice thing this does is eliminates the need to have any magic attribute key at all, as well as *having* to pass the context object in to every single method call. Craig
