functionality in an Action class ?

[Ranjangaonkar, Vaibhav (HQP)]

I am looking for an Action class like IncludeAction but
this class should be able to include contents from an external
source and store it in request/session scope, much like the 
<c:import > tag in JSTL. But, I want to use this functionality
outside of a JSP. Is there something like that already ? If not,
do we need an one or we can get away without it ?
 
Please advise,
Thanks.