No application context when instantiating

[reneger]

I'm using an HTTP servlet in my SEAM project. This is for the communication with a bunch of devices, the actual SEAM pages e.g. are used for the administration login.

The servlet is defined as follow:
public class RdmHttpServlet extends HttpServlet{

which works great. The servlet is added in the web.xml and is started on Jboss start.
But when i try to instantiate a DAO, i get an "No application context active" exception.
The instantiation is done with
final PhysicalDeviceDAO physicalDeviceDAO = (PhysicalDeviceDAO) Component.getInstance("physicalDeviceDAO");
which works fine from the seam context.
What do i miss?

I'm using the following configuration:
Jboss 4.2.3
Seam 2.1.1 GA
Java 1.6.0_11

Many thanks in advance.

René

[chawax]

Try the following :

Component component = Component.componentForName("physicalDeviceDAO");
PhysicalDeviceDAO physicalDeviceDAO = (PhysicalDeviceDAO) component.newInstance();

[reneger]

Component.componentForName isn't available in my config...

[chawax]

Not available ? I can't understand, it is part of Seam core ! Did I miss something ?

[reneger]

I dont know, i couldn't find the function anywhere.

But i've found the solution. I wrapped the servletrequest in my own ContextualServletRequest, found somewhere on the internet (http://sfwk.org/Documentation/ReplacingServletsWithSeamResources)

public class RdmHttpServlet extends HttpServlet{

    @Logger
    private static Log log;

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1859937460510960239L;

    /**
     *  XML Processor.
     */
    protected Processor processor = Processor.getInstance();

    protected void service(final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {

        new ContextualHttpServletRequest(request) {
            @Override
            public void process() throws Exception {
                handleRequest(request, response);
            }
        }.run();
    }

The handlerequest is the old function which was called by the doGet and doPost functions.
The handlerequest is now a Seam object, and therefore i can get my instances for my DAO's.