(Quick Reference) ## servletContext ### Purpose The servletContext object is an instance of the Servlet API’s ServletContext class. ### Examples
    class BookController {
        def doSomething() {
            def input
            try {
                input = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myscript.groovy")
                def result = new GroovyShell().evaluate(input.text)
                render result
            }
            finally {
                input.close()
            }
        }
    }
### 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.
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