DI in my struts plugin

[HashirAhmed]

Hello,

I'm using Struts 1.2 & have developed a plugin for my application which stores some objects in application scope.

These objects are fetched from database (DAO pattern) by using the service layer.

Now, I want to inject the service object into my struts plugin. Since, Spring (1.2) does not instantiate the struts plugin it can not do DI into it.

Is there a work around for this problem?

Thanks,

Hashir Ahmed

[irbouho]

Ahamd,

you may implement DI the pullway:

the following code, from org.springframework.web.struts.ActionSupport, shows how to access the WebApplicationContext from a struts Action / Plugin:

    /**
     * Fetch ContextLoaderPlugIn's WebApplicationContext from the ServletContext,
     * falling back to the root WebApplicationContext (the usual case).
     * @param actionServlet the associated ActionServlet
     * @return the WebApplicationContext
     * @throws IllegalStateException if no WebApplicationContext could be found
     * @see DelegatingActionUtils#findRequiredWebApplicationContext
     */
    protected WebApplicationContext initWebApplicationContext(ActionServlet actionServlet)
            throws IllegalStateException {

        return DelegatingActionUtils.findRequiredWebApplicationContext(actionServlet, null);
    }

HTH.

[HashirAhmed]

Thanks irbouho,

It solved my problem.

Keep up the good work.

Hashir Ahmed