I didn't realize your first post. In case you want to populate the context from within a handler, it's passed in as a parameter. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4024629#4024629 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4024629