There is ServletListener in every application but all it does initializing is call:
ManifoldCF.initializeEnvironment(); but there are other tasks which should be done (at least by one application): init database, register and init connectors, register agent, etc: > ILockManager lockManager = LockManagerFactory.make(tc); > lockManager.clearGlobalFlag(agentShutdownSignal); > ManifoldCF.createSystemDatabase(tc); > ManifoldCF.installTables(tc); > ManifoldCF.registerThisAgent(tc); > ManifoldCF.reregisterAllConnectors(tc); - run agents as separate thread periodically calling: > ManifoldCF.startAgents(tc); Those are only in jetty-launcher Main method and are needed to run Manifold. Without those running application without embedded jetty (and jetty-launcher) is impossible. My proposition is to provide separate (non-default) ServletListener for this task to maintain backward compatibility. If someone wishes to launch manifold in application server has just to change single line in web.xml.
