[s2] accessing servlet context from an action

Hi, I'm familiar with Struts 1, looking at Struts 2. The web app I am working on needs to use data sources that are controlled by tomcat connection pooling and accessed through JNDI. For this I need access to the servlet context that the action is running under. Previously I had a base action

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

--- Chris Cheshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about putting the equivalent in an action with Struts 2? I don't actually know if this is still valid, and I can't test it at the moment, but: http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/accessing-application-session-request-objects.html I believe

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

However, I am completely lost with Struts 2. Everything servlet dependent is abstracted away somewhere. I've been looking at the tutorials and they don't cover this kind of thing at all. How do I go about putting the equivalent in an action with Struts 2? An action class can implement

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

--- Piero Sartini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An action class can implement ServletContextAware - you have to implement a method setServletContext(ServletContext servletContext) then. Another way is to use ServletActionContext.getServletContext(); Definitely use these over what I suggested; I

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

I will create a FAQ entry. good idea. maybe it makes sense to merge it with this one: http://struts.apache.org/2.0.6/docs/how-can-we-access-the-httpservletrequest.html Piero - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

On 3/23/07, Piero Sartini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I am completely lost with Struts 2. Everything servlet dependent is abstracted away somewhere. I've been looking at the tutorials and they don't cover this kind of thing at all. How do I go about putting the equivalent in an action

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

--- Chris Cheshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at the javadoc for this, it doesn't say much. Do I just create a class scope variable for the session context and then set that from the argument in the set method? Yep. Is this set method called automagically by the framework when

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

Thank you muchly! On 3/23/07, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chris Cheshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at the javadoc for this, it doesn't say much. Do I just create a class scope variable for the session context and then set that from the argument in the set method?

Re: [s2] accessing servlet context from an action

I'm looking at the javadoc for this, it doesn't say much. Do I just create a class scope variable for the session context and then set that from the argument in the set method? That is exactly how it works. You might want to look at ServletSessionAware, ServletRequestAware,