hi doug, yup, was thinking along similar lines. just wasn't sure if there was some setting i wasn't aware of to do what i'm looking for.
thanks. -annie On 5/10/05, Parsons Technical Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may be off base on this one but I think that once Tomcat fires off the > init method it doesn't care or monitor the progress of the servlet. Just > think, some servlets may take several minutes to finish. If other apps had > to wait then it could take a long time to get the server started. > > Now as for a solution I am really speculating here (hopefully someone can > educate both of us). I would look at a wait statement in the init method to > pause the second app's servlet until the first one is done. Simply time the > first app's servlet and set it for a little more. > > Hopefully someone will set me straight if I am off base here. > > Doug > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Annie Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:59 PM > Subject: question about load-on-startup in web.xml > > hi, > > regarding the <load-on-startup> tag in web.xml: > > say i have 2 web apps (webapp1 and webapp2). if i configure webapp1's > servlet to have <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> and webapp2's > servlet to have <load-on-startup>100</load-on-startup>, does this mean > that tomcat will init webapp1's servlet first and once that's done, > it'll init webapp2's servlet? > > basically, i want both web app's servlets to auto initialize on tomcat > startup, but i want webapp2's servlet to initialze only after > webapp1's servlet has finished initialization. when i use the above > load-on-startup settings, webapp2's servlet seems to initialize before > webapp1's servlet has finished initialization. > > thanks. > -annie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]