I could be wrong, but perhaps you should use the Spring IoC container for this. I can't point you to the correct documentation off hand, but I believe that this is the way to maintain a resource such as what you had previoulsy done with the Servlet's init method and the factory class.
Maybe someone with more experience integrating spring and struts2 can chime in with some doc recommendations. I'm a bit of a newbie myself unfortunatley. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]