Alternative to Startup servlet

[mahmood.khurram]

Hi,
I am writing an application that was initially planned for working with servlet, Now we are using groovy, we can use templates to install servlets but, I dont know how can I access spring beans defined in groovy. as previously we were initializing spring from startup servlet? Any pointers?

[pledbrook]

You want to access the Spring application context from a servlet? Or do you want to do something else?

[mahmood.khurram]

I did following for servlet, it worked for me.

ServletContext context = getServletContext();
ApplicationContext applicationContext = (ApplicationContext)context.getAttribute(GrailsApplicationAttributes.APPLICATION_CONTEXT);

Now I am facing same problem with other Java classes where I want to get applicationContext.

I am not sure if BeanBuilder will be of any help? I am not sure if beanbuilder is singleton per web-app ?