[Springframework-developer] Integrating a singleton context loader w/ Acegi web filters?

[Tim K. <tim...@vi...>]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm writing this in the hopes I can get some insight on how to approach
this.  In the application we are developing, we have determined that it is
necessary to start up the spring context using a singleton, to make it
available to services that sit outside the web application.  So we are using
the singleton class/approach that is recommended by the Spring developers
for this purpose.  

 

The issue I am facing now is that we are also making use of Acegi Security,
which relies on the use of a context loader listener (which accepts a array
of strings as parameters), to start up the filter chain proxy in web.xml.  

 

Since for purposes of keeping duplication to a minimum, we'd obviously want
that the filter chain proxy access the context provided by the singleton,
instead of the context listener.  So I'm wondering about the best approach
for this.  I'm thinking either by modifying the ContextLoaderListener to use
the singleton instead, or modifying things on the Acegi side.  

 

But I thought before I got too into hacking stuff, I would ask the list in
case there are any glaringly obvious (and simple) solutions to this issue I
am looking at that would save me the need to hack a solution. 

 

Thanks!

 

-tim