I stumbled on what I think is a small difference in Tomcat's behaviour from
the Servlet spec. Looking at the code, it seems to affect both Tomcat 4 and
5.
In short, the servlet specs (2.3 and 2.4) says that a servlet with
load-on-startup value set to 0 should load before those with values of 1
remember correctly) don't process
entries with a value less than 0.
My practical advice to you is to look at context event listeners.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Prescott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Behaviour of load
Hi,
Load on startup should really be deprecated because it duplicates
functionality available via context event listeners.
I wouldn't rush to this conclusion at all. The Servlet's init and
destroy methods are the appropriate place to configure the servlet.
As a warning, there is some variance
