"Nilesh Bansal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi all, > > I want to know if Tomcat (servlet api) provides some way by which a > Java method can get session information or page context associated > with the current executing thread? > The short answer is no: Tomcat out-of-the-box doesn't provide this type of functionality
> Inside a JSP or a class implementing HttpServlet, one can easily get > the page context and session information. But is there some static > helper function which can return the same information for the current > executing thread? I don't want to pass the pageContext as an > additional variable to all method calls in JSP. > Long answer: There is nothing to prevent you from creating you a static ThreadLocal and storing whatever information you need in that. If you don't actually need the pageContext, then a simple Filter could be used to set this information up. > DWR for example provides the following for all DWR requests: > WebContext webContext = WebContextFactory.get(); // get() is a static > function > HttpSession session = webContext.getHttpServletRequest().getSession(); > > thanks > Nilesh > > -- > Nilesh Bansal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
