RE: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-10 Thread Takhar, Sandeep
however. sandeep -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacob Weber Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Storing global data in the servletContext I have a lot of data that needs to be available to all users, at any time (for

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Craig McClanahan
Jacob Weber wrote: I have a lot of data that needs to be available to all users, at any time (for example, the contents of drop-down menus, which I loaded from an XML file). From all the posts I've seen here, the recommended place to store global data seems to be the servletContext. Most people

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Joe Germuska
At 10:43 AM -0400 5/9/04, Jacob Weber wrote: Thanks. I'm glad you made sense of my question. :) If I do this, can I still use Struts tags that refer to a bean? Taking the drop-down menu example, if I store it directly in the servletContext, I can do: But if I store it in the servletContext as "m

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Brian Lee
g with the httpsessions. BAL From: Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Storing global data in the servletContext Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:05:13 -0500 At 9:37 AM -0400 5/9/04, Brian Alexander Lee wrote: That's intere

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Jacob Weber
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking back at the original email, I would guess that the things > read from XML config files could pretty safely be stored in each > ServletContext -- assuming they don't change after initialization -- > drop down menu

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Joe Germuska
At 9:37 AM -0400 5/9/04, Brian Alexander Lee wrote: That's interesting, so you recommend having an EJB (running in the ejb container) to manage data put into user sessions and servlet contexts (running in the web container)? I wouldn't go that far -- but then again, I'm not much of an EJB develope

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Brian Alexander Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Storing global data in the servletContext It sounds like you are the use case for EJB! As for your "other question," I would always advise using one (or a few beans) to manage everything you put into a session

Re: Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Joe Germuska
It sounds like you are the use case for EJB! As for your "other question," I would always advise using one (or a few beans) to manage everything you put into a session or application context, as much as you can logically encapsulate that. It'll make your life easier in the long-run, believe

Storing global data in the servletContext

2004-05-09 Thread Jacob Weber
I have a lot of data that needs to be available to all users, at any time (for example, the contents of drop-down menus, which I loaded from an XML file). From all the posts I've seen here, the recommended place to store global data seems to be the servletContext. Most people are setting up a