On Mar 9, Manolis Mavrikis had something to say about Re: How do I start...

>Jim,
>
>   Create a SetupServlet in your servlets package and use something similar as
>the below part of my web.xml
>
>   you can even pass some parameters with the param-value
>
>   and if I remebmer right you put the load-on-startup tag and it should start
>it on startup and initiliase whatever you want.
>
><servlet-name>setup</servlet-name>
>      <servlet-class>wallis.servlets.SetupServlet</servlet-class>
>      <init-param>
>       <param-name>props</param-name>
>        <param-value>/tomcat/webapps/wallis/WEB-INF/MDC.properties</param-value>
>      </init-param>
>     <load-on-startup/>
>    </servlet>
>
> hope this helps

But he's looking to initialize variables in each user's session.

I've done nothing with them (not even researched them), btu from the talk
on this list, it looks like either a Valve or Filter is what you want:

Theres's probably some info here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config

Good luck,


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mattwarden
mattwarden.com


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