Need access to HttpServletResponse object within a seam component without using FacesContext

[kfletcher2005]

Hello,

I'm using GWT 1.7 and remoting (RPC) to a seam component using Seam 2.2.  I don't want to introduce the Faces API (namely javax.faces.context.FacesContext) to access the request/response object when we are not using Faces for presentation layer but using GWT instead.  I'm looking for a way to expose the request and response object to my seam component.

@Name("com.myco.client.rpc.MyGWTSeamInterfaceService")
public class MyGWTSeamServiceImpl implements MyGWTSeamInterfaceService {
     private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(MyGWTSeamServiceImpl.class);

     @WebRemote
     public String getSomeHTML(String param) throws GException {
          
          /**
           * org.jboss.seam.web.ServletContexts  exposes the HttpServletRequest, 
           * so I'm not too worried here.
           */
          HttpServletRequest request = ServletContexts.instance().getRequest();     
          
          /**
           * But how do I get HttpServletResponse ?
           */
          HttpServletResponse response = ?
                    
          response.setContentType("whatever");
          
          String html = "<p>HELLO WORLD</p>";
          return "<form name=\"someform\" action=\""+request.getContextPath()+"\">"+html+"</form>";
     }
}

[kfletcher2005]

I'm mainly looking to expose the HttpServletResponse object in my seam remoting component without introducing FacesContext since we are using GWT in this shop.

[kfletcher2005]

I'm looking at seam source code here which exposes the request via static method but not the response...  This would be an ideal solution to my problem bypassing the FacesContext.

/**
 * A Seam component that binds the HttpServletRequest object
 * to the current thread.
 * 
 * @author Gavin King
 */
@Scope(ScopeType.EVENT)
@Name("org.jboss.seam.web.servletContexts")
@BypassInterceptors
@Install(precedence=BUILT_IN)
public class ServletContexts 
{
   
   private HttpServletRequest request;
   
   public static ServletContexts instance()
   {
      if ( !Contexts.isEventContextActive() ) 
      {
         throw new IllegalStateException("no event context active");
      }
      return (ServletContexts) Component.getInstance(ServletContexts.class, ScopeType.EVENT);
   }
   
   public static ServletContexts getInstance()
   {
      return Contexts.isEventContextActive() ? 
               (ServletContexts) Component.getInstance(ServletContexts.class, ScopeType.EVENT) : null;
   }

   public HttpServletRequest getRequest()
   {
      return request;
   }

   public void setRequest(HttpServletRequest request)
   {
      this.request = request;
   }
   
}

Just curious why HttpServletResponse is omitted?