Try downloading the new binary - /newsite/bin/jboss-tomcat-2.1-beta.zip
server.xml is now parsed, so I am thinking that will solve your problem...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: JBoss-User
> Subject: Re: [jBoss-User] Startup servlets when using embedded Tomcat?
>
>
> Hi Steve
>
> I should clear something up. I have successfully deployed the simple
> servlet examples using .war files and simple contexts, that
> is not what I'm
> talking about.
>
> Rather, I'm talking about a servlet which you can't hit through a web
> browser, one that is executed (and has been set up to do so,
> like you would
> normally do through Apache's server.xml) when the servlet
> engine (and JBoss
> server, in this case) starts up. I want to do this to cache
> a number of
> entity beans upon server startup. This is pretty standard
> functionality,
> WebLogic and JRun both allow you to do this, for example, as
> does Tomcat
> when you use server.xml (which is ignored in the Tomcat-JBoss
> configuration). There is a big difference between a startup
> servlet and one
> that you hit through a GET or POST request.
>
> If I can't execute startup servlets with the Tomcat-JBoss
> configuration,
> then it's useless to me, I'll have to run Tomcat with Apache,
> and let JBoss
> run in its own virtual machine. I must have startup servlets.
>
> Please let me know if this is still unclear.
>
> JBoss-User wrote:
> >> Thanks Steve
> >>
> >> I'm still a little unclear as to whether the servlet is
> actually run
> >(ie. to
> >> cache some objects) or is the context just registered?
> >
> >Well, here it actually runs ... I hit
> localhost:8080/<context name> and
> >there's the pages. Is that same format failing there?
> >
> >S-
> >
> >>
> >> JBoss-User wrote:
> >> >> Hello
> >> >>
> >> >> Has anyone had any success configuring and deploying a
> servlet that
> >> >gets
> >> >> executed upon the JBoss server startup, when using the
> >> >> embedded-Tomcat/JBoss configuration?
> >> >
> >> >Yes, this was no problem. I put a .war file (standard
> internal format)
> >in
> >> >the
> >> >deploy directory of jBoss. It notices this at once and loads it
> >(default
> >> >config) and also loads it at startup.
> >> >
> >> >As far as configuring, my .war is called "ums.war" and
> gets assigned
> >the
> >> >context "ums", but I am not sure if these two facts are causally
> >> >connected.
> >> >Also, the index.html is not found when loading
> localhost:8080/ums, but
> >> >instead
> >> >the name must be specified ("localhost:8080/ums/index.html"). I am
> >pretty
> >> >sure that all this can be configured correctly through
> JMX but have no
> >> >idea
> >> >how yet. :)
> >> >
> >> >You can make .war files easily if you set up your project
> to use ant.
> >See
> >> >"Developing Applications With Tomcat" which is in the
> docs that come
> >with
> >> >TomCat.
> >> >
> >> >HTH,
> >> >
> >> >S-
> >> >
> >> >
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