does a request-scoped service have access to application-scoped resources?

[Andrew Vardeman <an...@iastate.edu>]

Well, the subject pretty much says it--

what I'd like to do is have an application-scoped authentication handler in 
front of my "real" service whose purpose is to create homemade (i.e. not 
container-provided) session objects and hang them in application 
scope.  The request-based service would grab the session ID from the SOAP 
headers, get the application-scoped session object with matching ID, and go 
from there.  Is there any way for an Axis service to get its servlet context?

Andrew