Your app becomes shut down if it does not receive any requests for some time. After that, the next request will initiate a new startup sequence, so the implementation of the servlet spec is correct.
You should also implement ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed() to perform cleanup of your data, if needed. Regards, Stephan 2010/2/17 AJ Chen <ajc...@web2express.org> > For standard web app, I use a context listener servlet to do initialization > at startup. This also works in eclipse with GAE plugin, i.e. the context > listener is called only once at startup. But, it does not work in production > because the context listener servlet is called frequently. It seems GAE > restarts the context or something that triggers the call to the listener > servlet. SO, the question is: what's the right way to do one-time > initialization (e.g. pre-load data) in GAE? Maybe GAE does not have the > concept of initialization. Any suggestion is appreciated. > -aj > > -- > AJ Chen, PhD > Chair, Semantic Web SIG, sdforum.org > http://web2express.org > @web2express on twitter > Palo Alto, CA, USA > 650-283-4091 > *Monitoring social media in real time* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
