recieving result from a spring controller method to a java servlet ?

[bashirshaz]

i have this problem. Need help to find a nice easy way of doing this.

I have my java webapp (war-file). Which is a spring 3 application with a controller (which uses dependency injections to make sql calls trhough a dao). All well.

In this webapp i have now included birt framework(datawarehouse eclipse jars). This jar has it own servlets. (non-spring). I need to call and recieve result from my spring controller method from one of the birt servlets. The spring controller just returns a flag result, if the user has access to a resource or not.

So my question is how should i call my spring controller method from the servlet ? they both are in the same webapp. I would like to use the spring methods (as it has dependency injections to daos) to check if user has access to the resource or not.

Hope its clear what i need

thanks.

tried doing this by just calling the spring controller by using URLConnection, but it have to be a better way to do it:

protected boolean __authenticate( HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response ){

String urlName = "http://192.168.1.102:8080/reports/hasAccessToReport/2";
URL url;
try {
url = new URL(urlName);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("Output from Server :: "+line);
//do something with the output
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
}
}

[bashirshaz]

Would it be possible to use requestdispatcher to the spring controller, by using somehting like this ?

RequestDispatcher rd = getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/springcontroller/springmethod");
rd.forward(request,response);