Get a bean onto ServletContextScope

[breaux]

What's the easiest way for me to get a bean onto "Web Application scope" - I think ServletContextScope in Spring - so that I can reference it globally via direct JSTL EL like ${lookupMap} ?

[rjsalicco]

I think you can do something like:

servletContext.setAttribute("lookupMap", lookupMapInstance);

[breaux]

Yes, but there's no natural place in my application for such code to reside. It would be much more natural to specify that scope in the bean configuration or web.xml.

Otherwise I have to subclass ContextLoaderListener or inject these beans into some other web-aware bean which wouldn't naturally be the "owner" of such data.

[rjsalicco]

Right. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Maybe org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletCon textAttributeExporter will work for you?

[breaux]

That, indeed, does what I need. Thank you!