Yup. That does the ticket! Here's the code if anyone's interested...
The listener... package com.inexas.test.server; import javax.servlet.*; public class AppStarter implements ServletContextListener { public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) { ServletContext sc = event.getServletContext(); System.out.println(sc.getServerInfo()) ; } public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) { System.out.println("Bye!"); } } In the web.xml file... <web-app> <listener> <listener-class> com.inexas.test.server.AppStarter </listener-class> </listener> ... On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Jason Morris wrote: > Personally I would say use a ServletContextListener if the > structures you are creating will be > shared by several of your Servlets. That way the init is finished > before any of your Servlets are > created. > > Load-on-startup always feels like a bit of a hack to me ;) > > Just my 2c --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---