Re: load-on-startup question

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Josh wrote:

> I was wondering what the number in the load-on-startup tag inside web.xml
> represents?
> 
> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
> 

This is defined in the servlet specification
<http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html>.  It defines an
ordering for which load-on-startup servlets get loaded in which
order.  This is useful in case you have dependencies.

Craig