Accesing an already loaded applicaction bean from an XSLT transformation

[Victor Abeytua]

Hi,
    In the project I'm currently involved, I'm trying to access an
already loaded bean (application scope) from an XSLT transformation.
The problem I've got is that if I use the java extensions of xalan,
the transformer creates a "new" java Object, (it doesn't use the one
it is already loaded). Probably, I would be able to solve it if I find
the way of accessing the servlet context (but as I haven't been able
I'm not sure about it either).
    The idea behind using this approach is to avoid parsing the i18n
messages every time the xslt is called.
   
    Right now, my xslt file looks like:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
        xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan";
        xmlns:optionsb="lingua.beans.OptionsBean"
        extension-element-prefixes="optionsb"
        version="1.0" >
  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <xsl:param name="lang" select="'default value'"/>
  <xalan:component prefix="optionsb"
                   elements="init incr" functions="readLang
readCountry readLevel getMessageFromXslt">
    <xalan:script lang="javaclass" src="lingua.beans.OptionsBean"/>
  </xalan:component>

    BTW, I'm using tomcat 4.1 as servlet container and java 1.5.

    Thanks in advance,
    Victor

Any ideas