HttpSession passivation and ApplicationContextAware bean

[loobiecore]

Hi,

I've got a bean "mybean" that is stored in a HttpSession and that should be ApplicationContext aware to access a singleton "mySingleton".

My question regards what happens if my http session is passivated.

If I implement the ApplicationContextAware interface, i guess I will have no valid reference on the WebApplicationContext any more when the bean will be activated, since the WebApplicationContext is not serializable

I've implemented HttpSessionActivationListener for "mybean" like this :

public void sessionDidActivate(HttpSessionEvent event) {


mySingleton = event.getSession().getServletContext().getAttribut e("mySingleton");
}


I'm not satisfied with this solution because I have to store mySingleton in the ServletContext.

any idea about a cleaner solution that enables a direct access to the WebApplicationContext ?