Thanks Nicholas for your clue. I am using JBoss 401 and was able to find the rest of the answer quite easily.
I do think it is a slight tradeoff, since now I am getting tied to the app server (though I realize it is just a minor extension). thanks again, I think I am all set for now. Rich Rich Armstrong Genetics Software http://www.kromosoft.com On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:49 , Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >What app server ? >Most have this. >Look for JMX MBeans which can be configured to start >on app server start up. > > >--- Rich Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> I have a J2EE application, with a bootstrap servlet >> (that initializes some properties etc). The servlet >> is set to init on startup. It works fine. >> >> Now, I have another J2EE application that also >> requires some initialization, but does not really >> need a web component. I could of course use the >> servlet architecture, simply to do the >> bootstrapping, but that seems to be a waste. Is >> there a corresponding thing in the EJB layer itself? >> >> Specifically, is there a init on startup feature >> available on the EJB layer? >> >> Thanks, >> Rich >> >> Rich Armstrong >> Genetics Software http://www.kromosoft.com >> >Nicholas Whitehead >https://helios.dev.java.net/index.html >Helios. See All. Hear All. Understand All. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
