spring:message tag. Strange behaviour?

[tareq]

Hi,
I'm trying using Spring's jsp message tag. I use the url declared in <welcome-file-list> in my web.xml to access the first page of my site, the following exception occurs :

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: not in a DispatcherServlet request?
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(RequestContextUtils.java:79)

My WebApplicationContext is loaded using:

<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

The exception is thrown by Spring's RequestContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext:

	public static WebApplicationContext getWebApplicationContext(ServletRequest request)
	    throws IllegalStateException {
		return getWebApplicationContext(request, null);
	}

	public static WebApplicationContext getWebApplicationContext(ServletRequest request,
	                                                             ServletContext servletContext)
	    throws IllegalStateException {
		WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext = (WebApplicationContext) request.getAttribute(
				DispatcherServlet.WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE);
		if (webApplicationContext == null) {
			if (servletContext == null) {
				throw new IllegalStateException("No WebApplicationContext found: not in a DispatcherServlet request?");
			}
			webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
			if (webApplicationContext == null) {
				throw new IllegalStateException("No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?");
			}
		}
		return webApplicationContext;
	}

I think that the behaviour of getWebApplicationContext(ServletRequest request) is strange. Why dosn't it pass the ServletContext from the request instead of passing null? How can I use spring:message tag in pages not related to Spring (for example when I have login.jsp because of container managed security)?