It's also available via the servlet class. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/servletapi/javax/servlet/GenericServlet.html#getServletContext()
If you are trying this via jsp, it should be available via PageContext. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jspapi/javax/servlet/jsp/PageContext.html#getServletContext() --David lightbulb432 wrote:
Why is it that you need an HttpSession in order to get a ServletContext? I tried to obtain a ServletContext using an HttpServletRequest, but this isn't possible in the API, unless you do a request.getSession().getServletContext(). This creates a session, however, and I'm not sure I need a session to be created at the point in time where I am obtaining the ServletContext - all I want to do is have access to something I put in application scope earlier on. If I do a request.getSession(), then a session is started. If I do a request.getSession(false), then a NullPointerException will be thrown if I call getServletContext() on it. Why has the API been designed in such a way - after all, since it's possible to know what servlet context each request is going to, then shouldn't you be able to get the servlet context from the request? Thanks.
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