Do I understand correctly that bolts are instantiated once per worker and never 
re-prepared?

Thank you,
- alexz

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> On Nov 5, 2014, at 13:37, Itai Frenkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> AFAIK submitTopology submits the JAR to Nimbus which is then loaded to each 
> worker, so it is run only once, and not on each worker.
> 
> We use a dummy bolt's prepare method for that. Not sure what is the "correct" 
> way of doing it.
> 
> 
> Itai 
>  
> From: Alex Zuzin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Once-per JVM init?
>  
> Hi all!
> 
> Am I correct to assume that "submitTopology" is executed once per JVM and is 
> a good place to init resources that require once-per-JVM initialization?
> If not, is there such a spot (it needs to have access to Storm config)? If 
> yes, where? :)
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -- 
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