Java tutorial
import java.util.Collections; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class ContextBinder extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { //bind an object to the servlet context getServletContext().setAttribute("com.java2s.ContextObject", new ContextObject()); //better display something response.setContentType("text/html"); java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<html><head><title>Servlet Context Attribute</title></head><body>"); out.println("<h2>Servlet Context Attribute Bound</h2>"); out.println("Object: " + getServletContext().getAttribute("com.java2s.ContextObject")); out.println("</body></html>"); } //end doGet } //ContextObject.java class ContextObject { private Map map; public ContextObject() { map = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap()); } public void put(Object key, Object value) { if (key == null || value == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid parameters passed to ContextObject.put"); map.put(key, value); } public Map getMap() { return map; } public String getValues() { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(""); Set set = map.keySet(); synchronized (map) { Iterator i = set.iterator(); while (i.hasNext()) buf.append((String) i.next() + "<br>"); } return buf.toString(); } public String toString() { return getClass().getName() + "[ " + map + " ]"; } }