I guess you're right, it's not that they aren't struts-2-ish... But, one significant advantage of a static initializer block vs. servlet context listeners is easier unit testing. I found it much easier to write the unit tests for my actions if the JVM is in charge of initialization duties. I don't know much about Spring and shied away from servlet context listeners because I didn't want the external dependencies. I'm not suggesting that my way is the best way, but if you have a requirement to write unit tests for all of your code, then it's easier to stay away from the Servlet API.
-Wes > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe Germuska > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:58 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [S2] Equivalent of Servlet init() method? > > On 2/22/07, Wesley Wannemacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I looked for something similar a while back and didn't find anything > > simple. > > There are servlet context listeners (but that isn't really > struts-2-ish). > > > > I would strongly disagree that ServletContextListeners are "not really > struts-2-ish". They are probably the best way to do any one-time > initialization for an application, unless there's already > some other code to > do what you need... >
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