Seems like if you want to do anything in a listener that requires shiro
(such as starting a thread that is associated with a subject as I
currently suggested in another thread), you would need Shiro already
initialized.  Maybe we just need a ShiroServletContextListener?  This
could fit in well with the notion of storing the SecurityManager in the
WebApp Context.

On 05/09/2011 05:29 PM, dan wrote:
> Consider the following webapp startup process:
>
> 1. web.xml specifies a <listener> and primary app initialization happens in
> its contextInitialized() method.
>
> 2. The app initialization triggers some background process, which starts
> with getSubject() ...
>
> 3. web.xml specifies a <filter> and the IniShiroFilter filter is invoked to
> initialize shiro
>
> The issue is that the background process which calls getSubject() will fail
> because Shiro hasn't been initialized.  It appears that what I would like to
> implement is a two-stage initialization:
>     1. initialize the basic Shiro environment with our classpath shiro.ini
> in the <listener> method.
>     2. initialize the web-specific part of Shiro in IniShiroFilter.
> It didn't seem like this two stage initialization is currently possible. 
> Any ideas on this corner case?
>
> (Note: App initialization early on with the listener is recommended, for one
> reason because it allows for graceful aborting from startup.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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