Re: Plug-in API

2003-09-08 Thread David Graham
--- Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:40 -0700 9/8/03, David Graham wrote: > >Plugins are really only helpful to people using a Servlet 2.2 > container. > >If you're using Servlet 2.3 you should use a ServletContextListener. > > I don't know (but I doubt) that there is a determinate o

RE: Plug-in API

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew Hill
+1 Ive always found plugins by far the more convienient of the various methods of initialising stuff at startup. -Original Message- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 22:51 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Plug-in API At 7:40 -0700 9/8

Re: Plug-in API

2003-09-08 Thread Joe Germuska
At 7:40 -0700 9/8/03, David Graham wrote: Plugins are really only helpful to people using a Servlet 2.2 container. If you're using Servlet 2.3 you should use a ServletContextListener. I don't know (but I doubt) that there is a determinate order to how containers process "contextInitialized" On th

Re: Plug-in API

2003-09-08 Thread Troy Hart
Struts Plug-In is useful any time you have a resource that needs to be initialized with the web application. In the past you would have needed to extend the ActionServlet and override init(), now you declare a plug-in in your struts-config.xml Troy Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: Hi I am ju

Re: Plug-in API

2003-09-08 Thread David Graham
--- Mohan Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am just trying to learn about the Plug-in API. > > When exactly is this useful ? How would it be helpful if I want to > plug-in a custom-user authentication facility instead of using the > vendorspecific XML file ( JDBC realm in t