| Exporter that takes Spring-defined objects and exposes them as
ServletContext attributes. Usually, bean references will be used
to export Spring-defined beans as ServletContext attributes.
Useful to make Spring-defined beans available to code that is
not aware of Spring at all, but rather just of the Servlet API.
Client code can then use plain ServletContext attribute lookups
to access those objects, despite them being defined in a Spring
application context.
Alternatively, consider using the WebApplicationContextUtils
class to access Spring-defined beans via the WebApplicationContext
interface. This makes client code aware of Spring API, of course.
author: Juergen Hoeller since: 1.1.4 See Also: javax.servlet.ServletContext.getAttribute See Also: WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext |