How to get instances of WebApplicationContext and DispatcherServlet in spring -web-mvc during spring web application execution

Question

I want to get an instance of a WebApplicationContext instance and a DispatcherServlet instance in a function under the controller class.

Answer 1

As with Spring 2.5, you can get a link to WebApplicationContext using the @Autowired annotation:

 @Autowired WebApplicationContext applicationContext; 

You can also get the ApplicationContext link by implementing the ApplicationContextAware interface:

 public class YourController implements ApplicationContextAware { ApplicationContext applicationContext; public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException { this.applicationContext = applicationContext; } ... } 

But I do not think that there is a way to get a link to an instance of DispatcherServlet or to an instance of any servlet present in your application. There used to be a way to get it using ServletContext.getServlet () , which is now deprecated.