Index: src/webapp/WEB-INF/cocoon-xconf.xsl
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--- src/webapp/WEB-INF/cocoon-xconf.xsl	(revision 409692)
+++ src/webapp/WEB-INF/cocoon-xconf.xsl	(working copy)
@@ -229,6 +229,10 @@
       class="org.apache.lenya.cms.cocoon.uriparameterizer.URIParameterizerImpl"
       role="org.apache.lenya.cms.cocoon.uriparameterizer.URIParameterizer"/>
       
+  <component role="org.apache.lenya.cms.cocoon.components.context.ContextUtility"
+             logger="lenya.cocoon.components"
+             class="org.apache.lenya.cms.cocoon.components.context.ContextUtility"/>    
+      
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 
Index: src/java/org/apache/lenya/cms/cocoon/components/context/ContextUtility.java
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--- src/java/org/apache/lenya/cms/cocoon/components/context/ContextUtility.java	(revision 0)
+++ src/java/org/apache/lenya/cms/cocoon/components/context/ContextUtility.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.lenya.cms.cocoon.components.context;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component;
+import org.apache.avalon.framework.context.Context;
+import org.apache.avalon.framework.context.ContextException;
+import org.apache.avalon.framework.context.Contextualizable;
+import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.AbstractLogEnabled;
+import org.apache.cocoon.components.ContextHelper;
+import org.apache.cocoon.environment.Request;
+import org.apache.cocoon.environment.Response;
+
+/**
+ * Utility class for getting the context, request, response and
+ * object model of the current request.
+ */
+public class ContextUtility extends AbstractLogEnabled implements
+        Component, Contextualizable {
+    /**
+     * The component's role.
+     */
+    public static final String ROLE = ContextUtility.class.getName();
+
+    protected Context context;
+
+    
+    /**
+     * @see org.apache.avalon.framework.context.Contextualizable#contextualize(org.apache.avalon.framework.context.Context)
+     */
+    public void contextualize(Context context) throws ContextException {
+        this.context = context;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the context object of the current request.
+     * @return The context object of the current request.
+     */
+    public Context getContext() {
+        return context;
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Get the request object of the current request.
+     * @return The request object of the current request.
+     */
+    public Request getRequest() {
+        return ContextHelper.getRequest(context);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Get the response object of the current request.
+     * @return The response object of the current request.
+     */
+    public Response getResponse() {
+        return ContextHelper.getResponse(context);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Get the object model of the current request.
+     * @return The object model of the current request.
+     */
+    public Map getObjectModel() {
+        return ContextHelper.getObjectModel(context);
+    }
+}