Initialising beans from an HttpRequest

[<tom@goodtech.co.uk>]

I'm currently developing a bean which needs to be initialised with a value
from the current HttpRequest. Specifically, it's a shopping basket type
bean which needs a cookie value so it can read in user-specific details of
the basket from a database.

Is there an easy way of passing this in the <BEAN> tag? At the moment, I'm
using the tag and calling an init(req) function to initialise it in the
JSP source, but I'd rather avoid this...

Thanks
Tom

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