(Quick Reference)

servletContext

Purpose

The servletContext object is an instance of the Servlet API’s ServletContext class.

Examples

class ExamplesTagLib {

    def doSomething = {
        out << "Servlet major version: ${servletContext.majorVersion}"
    }

}

Description

The Servlet API’s ServletContext is useful for, amongst other things, storing global application attributes, reading local server resources and establishing information about the servlet container.

Grails adds additional methods to the standard Servlet API’s servletContext object. See link for details.