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The following page has been changed by BrianManahan: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/ActionContext The comment on the change is: added missing word "time" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ActionContext context = ActionContext.getContext(); }}} - Think about that for a moment... you can get it from '''any''' class at '''any'''. This means that you can have a helper class called from an Action, and if it happens to need access to !ServletContext (maybe it is writing a file and needs !ServletContext to get a path to it), you can do so, you '''do not''' have to explicitly pass that information to the helper. + Think about that for a moment... you can get it from '''any''' class at '''any''' time. This means that you can have a helper class called from an Action, and if it happens to need access to !ServletContext (maybe it is writing a file and needs !ServletContext to get a path to it), you can do so, you '''do not''' have to explicitly pass that information to the helper. Two other important things about this is that (a) you should always be able to go to the same place to get the information you need, the !ActionContext, as opposed to Struts where it is scattered across the Request, Response, !ActionMapping, etc. objects, and (b) your Actions can be POJOs because there are no requirements for any method to have a specific signature. Think of the method signature of the Struts Action class:
