Hello,
I've seen a few answers to your question suggesting that you use a servlet that loads on startup. I have another suggestion that you may prefer to emulate "global.asa": implement ServletContextListener and HttpSessionActivationListener. javax.servlet.ServletContextListener ...sends you events when the webapp starts and ends. javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionActivationListener ...sends you events when a session is created or destroyed. You'll find javadocs for these items in the following path with a default tomcat installation, obviously relative to the root of your installation: /tomcat-docs/servletapi/index.html To use them, you'll need to add appropriate XML elements to web.xml (refer to a tutorial or the web.xml DTD). It's simple and works well. - Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:14 AM Subject: global.jsa > Is there such a thing as a global.jsa file in Tomcat? > > I first saw this concept (an idea taken from ASP's global.asa) implemented > in JRUN. > > If there is a global.jsa, does anyone know of any docs on this? If not, is > there an alternative? The reason I would want to use this is to instantiate, > populate, and cache a few objects upon startup of the application. If > Tomcat does not provide a global.jsa...does anyone know how otherwise to > achieve the goal? > > Thanks. > Neal > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
