Is it possible to explicitly call a doPost or do get method ?

Question

Hi,
I have a scenario where i need to call a servlets method doGet or do Post explicitly from another class. Is it possible?
If not possible then what is the other way of solving my problem. Please find my scenario below.]
I have a hashMap set in the application context which gets values fuilled in it for each webrequest.
I need to write a job using timertask or quartz to clear the entries from this hash map. If i have to do this. I have to get the hasmap fromt he context.
Without the request object, is it possible to get the context in a class.
thats when i thought i might need to call a servlet from my job class, I am iam not sure how to call the methods in the servlet calss explicitly.
I would appreciate a quick reply
Thanks,
Viiveek

Answer 1

Hi Balu,
This is how i understood your suggestion. Please correct me if i am wrong.
I will be writing a class like this. Was this the way you had suggested
class MyJob extends TimerTask implements ServletContextListener {
public void run() {
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
sendEmailBulletin(sc);
stopEmailBulletinTimer();
public void startEmailBulletinTimer(ServletContext sc) {
if (timer == null) {
timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(this, 0L);
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
          context=event.getServletContext();
startEmailBulletinTimer(Servlcontext)
private void sendEmailBulletin(ServletContext sc) {
// my logic goes here
}