Is it possible to access spring context inside the portlet code ?
I'm trying to use spring-portlet.jar.
Here is what I want to do :

public class HelloWorld extends GenericPortlet {
public void doView(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response)
throws PortletException, IOException {
Object myFooObject = getApplicationContext().getBean("myFooObjectName");
...

I tried to initialize a singleton on startup which provides static access to the context. I tried to access it from the portlet, but it seems that in this case it's not a valid portlet anymore.

My goal is to provide an access to database objects like BO, DAO and services (through hibernate/spring-hibernate) .

Is it possible to do this differently ?
Many thanks,
Rom