[Springframework-developer] Access to ServletConfig in WebApplicationContext

[John L. <jl...@ar...>]

I posted a question about this to the user list last week and no one had 
any secret tricks for this, so I'd like to propose a minor change to 
WebApplicationContext and to FrameworkServlet as follows:

I'd like to provide beans running in a WebApplicationContext with access to 
the ServletConfig that they are running in.  I'd like to do this in order 
to provide access to the portletName and the initParameters for the 
Servlet.  I know several other developers have expressed an interest in this.

This can be done in the same way that Spring currently provides access to 
the ServletContext.  In fact, we can also provide a ServletConfigAware 
interface and inject the ServletConfig directly into any bean that wants it.

I will then also provide equivalent functionality in the Portlet MVC code 
so that beans running in a PortletApplicationContext have access the 
PortletConfig they are running in.  I'd like to do this in both frameworks 
in order to keep them relatively synchronized.

Any objections to all this?

Juergen, I'd be happy to email you the code prior to committing it into CVS 
if you would like to review the changes first.  Please let me know.

Thanks for your support.

John Lewis