How do I get a spring’s bean from a servlet?

By Wayan in Servlet 2 Comments

I have created a servlet based web application and I want to used Spring beans in it. So how do I do this in my servlet. Well, it simple enough to do this. First of all I have to obtain the Spring’s WebApplicationContext, from where I can grab the required bean by my servlet.

Let’s see some lines of code on how to do it, here we go:

package org.kodejava.example.servlet;

import org.kodejava.example.servlet.dao.UserDao;
import org.kodejava.example.servlet.model.User;
import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

public class SpringBeanServletExample extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
        WebApplicationContext ctx =
                WebApplicationContextUtils
                        .getWebApplicationContext(context);
        UserDao dao = ctx.getBean("userDao", UserDao.class);

        Long userId = Long.valueOf(req.getParameter("user_id"));
        User user = dao.getUser(userId);

        res.setContentType("text/html");
        PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter();
        pw.print("User Details: " + user.toString());
        pw.flush();
    }
}

Inside the Java Servlet doGet() method above I get the ServletContext, next the WebApplicationContextUtils help me to get Spring’s WebApplicationContext. With this object in my hand I can get my UserDao implementation and do a query from database.

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Wayan

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2 Comments

    • Hi Edgardo,

      You don’t need to configure the servlet in the xml bean configuration. This configuration only for the spring beans that will be use by the application. The complete code can be seen in the GitHub repository.

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