Best way in Spring 3 with annotation to provide an object in all views

[Michael Kuss]

Hi Craig,

I like to have an object (e.g. The User object out of the database or the Version of the project) to be available in all my views.
I hate to insert lookup code into my jsp that I could do. Rather I like to have a already correctly formated object delivered from my controller.
But I do not want to do that programatically in all my controllers.
Have you a suggestion how to do that without having too much code in my jsps?

We are using spring 3.0.1 and hibernate on a tomcat 6.
A small code snipet would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
Kind Regards
Michael

[Alaa Nassef]

If it's the logged in user, if you are using spring security, the tag libraries give you access to the authentication object, hence the logged in user object. If it's any other object, you can add it to the HTTP session or to the application context, depending on the scope you want this object to be. It's not spring specific.