The 2.3 Servlet API has "Lifecyle Events". You just have to use the <listener> tag in your web.xml to specify a class that implements the ServletContextListener interface. There is an explanation at
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Servlets/servl etapi2.3/ under the "Lifecyle Events" section. I've use this a few times in Tomcat 4 with no problems. Bsr -----Original Message----- From: Mark Woon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:21 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Initializer servlet? Hello. I've seen a few posts about initializer servlets that basically does whatever setup/housekeeping work needs to be done for the application. How do you guarantee that this servlet will run before anything else? Is this something you can define within your servlet container? If so, does anyone know how you'd do this with Tomcat? Thanks, -Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
