Peter Brandt-Erichsen wrote:
>
> My apologies for the confusion and also for
> misquoting David and you.
>
> So, it is possible to specify a set of servlets
> to load on startup. That's awesome.
>
> How do I point Tomcat to auto load servlets on
> start up, that are defined in my custom contexts?
> Does Tomcat scan through each defined context's
> web.xml and just start loading all the servlets that are
> defined?
>
Yes. When Tomcat first starts up, it reads the WEB-INF/web.xml file for
each app, and uses those settings to configure the app. That's what is
going on as it is logging messages about starting each context up.
> Also, if I had three sevlets to auto load would I specify
>
> <load-on-startup>
> 3
> </load-on-startup>
The number in the <load-on-startup> entry is not the number of servlets
to start -- it is supposed to define the *order* in which all
load-on-startup servlets you declare are started. (I don't think Tomcat
3.2.1 obeys the ordering request -- Tomcat 4.0 does -- but it does start
them).
The way you declare that you want a servlet loaded at startup time is to
say so in the servlet definition for that servlet:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.mycompany.mypackage.MyServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
You can declare as many servlets as you like in a web.xml file, and any
or all of them can be declared to load at startup time.
The details for everything that can go in a web.xml file are in the
servlet spec, which you can download at
<http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html>. There are also
starting to be articles and books about servlet 2.2 -- try doing a web
search for "servlet 2.2" and see what you get.
>
> Peter
Craig McClanahan
