On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Guillaume Barreau wrote:
> Dear Tomcat users,
>
> What is the best way to create some objects which are going to be available
> application-wide to a bunch of servlets from the same web-app? Or in other
> words, is there an equivalent of an init() method but for the application as a
> whole?
>
you could use the <jsp:useBean ... scope="application" /> tag.
it's not only handy for beans, but for other objects that need to have
an application scope too.
> At the moment, I am having to clutter the init() method of all my servlets with
> code to check if the object has been created and create it if it hasn't. I have
> to do that because I am not sure which servlet will be invoked first.
>
hm. what's wrong with a singleton for the objects?
you just access them with:
ApplicationWideObject x=ApplicationWideObject.getInstance();
> Am I missing something? Is there any way to do that in the xml descriptor file?
Am I missing something,
or is the answer enough.
have fun,
Sloot.
