Managing resource life cycle during request

[Jeff Trent]

I was wondering how other people deal with physical resource objects (eg. db result sets, etc.) during a request.  Before struts, I use to allocate the resource, call request.setAttribute() with the resource object, call request dispatcher (to do jsp presentation), then clean up the resource back in the servlet upon return.  In struts, this has all been abstracted out.  Is there an alternative way to manage request-scoped resources like this under struts?   thanks, jeff