How to get request params easily?

Dear list members,

I'm newby in Woodstock framework...

Is there any simple way how to set the request params of RequestBean1 object from the request?

This way is too long and awful:

        Map params = getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap();

        if (params.get("param1") != null)
        getRequestBean1().setParam1(Double.parseDouble(params.get("param1").toString()));


Thanks in advance,
Regards,

 -Andrey