How to access Beans from servlet filter

[VJJ]

I would like to access the spring beans from a servlet filter class. How can I do it?

[Mike Bingham]

You could use the DelegatingFilterProxy class provided by Spring:

http://www.springframework.org/docs/api/org/springframework/web/filter/DelegatingFilterProxy.html

See the following for an example:

http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=42415