Getting servletcontext in a RemoteServiceServlet

[Steven De Groote]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to GWT and I'm trying to perform an rather simple RPC
call.
The call works, as in debugging it enters the constructor of my
Service implementation:

public class BehaviourServiceImpl extends RemoteServiceServlet
implements BehaviourService {
private IMWSProxy mwsProxy;
private static final Log log =
LogFactory.getLog( BehaviourServiceImpl.class );

public BehaviourServiceImpl() {
super();
mwsProxy =
(IMWSProxy)this.getServletContext().getAttribute("mwsProxy");
}

The problem is however that getServletContext() throws a nullpointer
exception (I noticed while performing "inspect" in debug mode. Here's
what I get:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet.java:
159)
at
be.sofico.web.pm.server.BehaviourServiceImpl.<init>(BehaviourServiceImpl.java:
29)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown
Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown
Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)

So, what I want to do is get an object from the application, as I will
need that one to retrieve my data later on.
Are there better ways to do that or can anyone help me solve this
issue please?

Thank you,
Steven

[Steven De Groote]

Ah well, nevermind, put it in the init() and that works fine.
Can't believe I missed that one :/