Usually servlets are lazy-loaded, meaning, the init() method of the
servlet is not called until a user makes a request to it for the first
time. By putting the load-on-startup with an integer as a value, then
you force the servlet to call init() on startup. This may be
advantageous as you may want to read in configuration files or set
application properties with your servlet.
<!-- [Example] -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>detail</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
Jacob Hookom
CS Student
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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Hi,
What's the use of the "load-on-startup" element in web.xml?
Thanks.
Jc
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