You usually want to do this whilst initializing you app. In this case, simple and pretty much standard would be to write a servlet (generic if you don't want to be tied to http) as part of your web-app. All you do is implement its init() method and declare it in your web.xml. Only once init is done for all your servlets, can the users hit your pages. Emmanuel
-----Original Message----- From: Damm, Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: first action Sounds more like a PlugIn. Here are the API docs: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/action/PlugIn.htm l You just implement this interface, configure it in your config.xml file and you're up and running. Gary -----Original Message----- From: Yan Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:26 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: first action hey guys, what is the best way to implement a startup action that always will be executed first before any jsp is hit? thanks yan -- 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
