Require help

[Vinoj Vijayan]

Hi
        We are using Apache 1.3.12 as the web server with Tomcat as the
JSP/Servlet engine. We have the following requirement, we are to instantiate
a class when the server starts up. How do we do this ? Do we have to
add/modify lines in the configuration files for apache and/or tomcat? 

Please help.

Thanks and Regards
Vinoj