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Subject: Re: Best global parameter aproach for struts2
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:31:59 -0500
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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:20:17 Ignacio de C=F3rdoba wrote:
> Hi there,
> after starting some serious migration from struts to struts2 I am wonderi=
ng
> is there is any "best practices" for global application parameters.
> I used to store this parameters in web.xml, but as struts2 finds important
> not to be tied to the "http" thing (I read it very often in docs... about
> unit testing, etc.) I find myself with problems every time I want to get a
> web.xml init parameter.
> In actions it is not that difficult, but it is in interceptors, as there =
is
> no way to get the ServletContext as they have no init method getting it as
> a parameter. (I am now lazy loading that parameter at first Action
> invocation to the interceptor)
> I wonder if there is another aproach to set init parameters and forget
> about web.xml... I need some init parameters easily readable from both
> actions and interceptors... struts.xml, struts.properties, ...
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Ignacio

It might seem a bit extreme for simple values, but I use Spring. If configu=
red=20
correctly, it will be mostly non-intrusive, then getting values for can be =
as=20
simple as adding a setter to your action/interceptor/result. Then, in the=20
long-run, you also get the benefit of having Spring's libraries (for when y=
ou=20
decide to integrate JPA, AOP or whatever is cool that week).

=2DWes

=2D-=20

Wes Wannemacher
Author - Struts 2 In Practice=20
Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more
http://www.manning.com/wannemacher


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