Use Placeholder value in JSP page?

[xerces8]

Hi!

Using Spring 3.0.x for a web application, is it possible to get/read a placeholder value from a JSP page?

I found two solutions, but they are not elegant:
- store the value in a bean and read it with spring:eval tag / SpEL (see post #9 here)
- use a bean to inject the value into the servlet context (see here)

Is there a better simpler way? What I aim at is:

<context-param>
	<param-name>foo</param-name>
	<param-value>${placeholder.value}</param-value>
</context-param>

Thanks,
David

PS: Hmm, if PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer would implement the FactoryBean<Properties> interface it would be much simpler for me...

[jasonparallel]

How about writing a custom jsp tag that would fetch the value for you?