Geeta, Do you really think this would be better than doing it in a servlet context listener? If your container doesn't support that, wouldn't you still prefer to write a plugin? Or a class that uses the class loader to make sure the data only gets loaded once? Or a startup class (if you don't mind being tied to your container) I would think you'd want anything but to extend the ActionServlet at this point..... John
> -----Original Message----- > From: Geeta Ramani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:22 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Universally Accessable Object > > > Larry: > > An easy way to do this would be to: > > 1. Write a controller class which extends the Struts ActionServlet. > 2. Declare a *static* object of type (say) Hashtable in this controller. > 3. In the init() method of the controller, write code to > initialise this hashtable. > 4. Finally make the appropriate markings in your web.xml so that > your controller (rather than the Struts' ActionServlet) is what > is called with a url-pattern of *.do and make sure the controller > has a load-on-startup param as 1. > 5. In your Action classes, you can then access this object in the > normal way: MyController.myHashtable. > > Hth! > Regards, > Geeta > > Larry Hytail wrote: > > > I have a table of information contained in a backend database. > The table is not very big and never will be. I would like to > create an object that holds the values from this table. I would > like this object to instantiate when the struts webapp is > started. Then I would like to be able to access this object from > any Action object within my struts application. Questions: > > > > 1) Where is the best place to put the instantiation of this object? > > > > 2) How do I get a handle on the object from the Action object? > > > > Larry Hytail > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
