de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.servlet
Class FacesContextLoader

java.lang.Object
  de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.servlet.FacesContextLoader

public final class FacesContextLoader
extends java.lang.Object

Performs the actual initialization work for a FacesContext which contains all of the per-request state information. Called by FacesContextFilter and FacesDispatcherServlet.

Author:

Andreas Kuhrwahl

See Also:

FacesContextFilter, FacesDispatcherServlet

Method Summary

static FacesContextLoader	getCurrentInstance()
FacesContext	initFacesContext(javax.servlet.ServletContext servletContext, javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response) Create (if needed) and return a FacesContext instance that is initialized for the processing of the specified request and response objects.
void	releaseFacesContext(FacesContext context) Release any resources associated with the given FacesContext instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getCurrentInstance

public static FacesContextLoader getCurrentInstance()

Returns:

The singleton instance of FacesContextLoader.

initFacesContext

public FacesContext initFacesContext(javax.servlet.ServletContext servletContext,
                                     javax.servlet.ServletRequest request,
                                     javax.servlet.ServletResponse response)
                              throws javax.servlet.ServletException

Create (if needed) and return a FacesContext instance that is initialized for the processing of the specified request and response objects.

Parameters:

servletContext - the ServletContext that is associated with this web

request - the ServletRequest that is to be processed

response - the ServletResponse that is to be processed

Returns:

The FacesContext instance

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - if a FacesContext cannot be constructed for the specified parameters

See Also:

FacesContextFactory.getFacesContext(Object, Object, Object, Lifecycle)

releaseFacesContext

public void releaseFacesContext(FacesContext context)

Release any resources associated with the given FacesContext instance.

Parameters:

context - the FacesContext which contains per-request state information

See Also:

FacesContext.release()