Hi, Do you wish to initalize the session or ServletContext[application] on startup???. If you want to fire a JSP another servlet from the init() you can invoke by writing URLConnection.. But I am not clear about initializing the Session info, on startup
Do let me know if any thing found on that... Regards, Pratt. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:55 PM Subject: Re: How do I start with a servlet? > OK, I think I see the problem. It did call the servlet but only the > init() method. Makes sense. Since there is no request passed, I can't > do anything. > > Let me restate the question. I'd like to start execution with a servlet > that can fire off a jsp after initializing stuff in the the session and > hopefully seting variables somewhere that the taglib routines can use. > I'm starting to think there is no way to do that. You have to begin > with a document so there is a request to pass to the servelet. > > Thanks, > Jim. > > "Warden, Matt" wrote: > > > > 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, > > > > -- > > mattwarden > > mattwarden.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
