hello you just have to implements javax.servlet.ServletContextListener in a class and use void contextInitialized() to make your initialization
(your class must be declared in web.xml as a listener) you can see http://www.onjava.com/onjava/2003/01/08/examples/ContextListener.html for example julien On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:32:37 +0100, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok this is not directly myfaces related, but since I dont know where to > ask exactly, I think this place is good enough. > > I have a small problem, I have a managed bean with an application scope. > This bean should be initialized during the startup of the webapp. > I dont see any standardized way to do this, since the bean seems to > be initialized first at the first referencing call from the JSF code. > (the bean has application scope) > > I figured it out, that overriding the standard JSF servlet could to the > trick, but I dont really want to do that. Does anybody know if there is > another way to have the bean initialized during application startup? > > > Werner > >

