Access to web application context

[Fabien R]

I would like to programatically access to the resources of an 
application context.

I found that one may use:
HttpSession l_s = p_request.getSession(false);
ApplicationContextFacade l_sc = (ApplicationContextFacade) 
l_s.getServletContext();
InputStream l_is = l_sc.getResourceAsStream(<path>);
But I would prefer to get the context as StandardContext to use its more 
convenient methods.

Any hints ?

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Fabien