How to access the Struts ConnectionPool from an ActionForm

[Steven Citron-Pousty]

Greetings all:
I am trying to populate the options for a select list from a DB call. And I am getting a null pointer exception from this line in the ActionForm (I copied it from my Action, where it works):

DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) servlet.getServletContext().getAttribute(Action.DATA_SOURCE_KEY);

What I am trying to do is use the ConnectionPool provided by Struts. This call works great in my Action but doesn't work in my ActionForm.
On the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #struts) we have been discussing the merits of putting a DB call in an ActionForm.

SOoo, my main question is,
How do I ask the context for the connection pool in an ActionForm?

But I would also love to see discussion about the merits of putting a DB call in an ActionForm at all. If I didn't put the call in the ActionForm how would I get the data from the DB call into the actionForm?

Thanks in advance for all your help,
Steve

BTW it appears as if posting from the basebeans nntp doesn't get posted to the list.


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