How to create default beans accessible by every page ?

[matt_koss]

I would like to have certain objects accessible in every page of my webapp.
I have a JavaScript menu that I want to generate dynamically from the DB, and as the menu is on every page, I will need the DAo object in every page.

Ideally I could use <jsp:useBean> tag to retrieve them in the page.

What is the best way to achieve this ?

Do I need to place them in the ModelAndView in every controller that I have, or should I override DispatcherServlet and stick them in the page context ?

But how about simple JSP files that do not use controller ?

Thanks for any help

Matt

[Asya]

one way is to have an interceptor which will stick these objects in the model in postHandle method:

	modelAndView.addObject("objectName", objectValue);