Hello;
Problem: My application has many text strings (i.e. email messages, email
recipient addresses, canned messages, etc) that both my servlets and EJBs
need to access. It needs to be done in a way that these are not hardcoded
and can be accessed easily from servlets, ejbs, and possibly even standalone
applications.
My Solution: Have a MessageResources object that is created by a startup
servlet that contains all these strings. You can then use a
MessageResources.getValue(String) to get the desired string you want. This
is all done, the startup servlet runs, reads in the XML file, and creates
the MessageResources.
My Problem: I now need a way to pass that MessageResource object into scope
so it is accessible by Servlets and EJBs (I'll worry about standalone
applications later).
However, I somehow need a way for the Stateless session bean to get this
MessageResource object. I can't do StartupServlet.getMR() because the EJBs
might be remote.
Is it possible to use JNDI and store an object? IF that is the case, then I
could do something like this in my stateless session bean:
public String getMessage(String key) {
if (messageResources == null) {
// lookup messageResources with JNDI
}
}
How would I do this in OrionServer? I believe it is app server specific,
right?
Does anyone have any input? Is it the right way to do it? This must be a
common problem (global variables needed). How is everyone else doing this?
