There are work-arounds though:
INIT:
Make a global variable, set it to null, inside your <xsp:page> block check
to see if it is null and do init stuff, then set it to something else.
DESTROY:
wouldn't overloading void finalize() { ... } work here?
-matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frans Thamura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: init() and destroy() in XSP
> Ya, one of cocoon problem is no init and destroy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Polley Christopher W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:16 PM
> Subject: init() and destroy() in XSP
>
>
> > Hello, all:
> >
> > I have an XSP page in which I would like to do some setup (open JDBC
> > connection, create prepared statements) upon instantiation and cleanup
> > (close ps's and connection) upon destruction.
> >
> > In its previous life as a jsp page, it used jspInit() and jspDestroy(),
> and
> > in a servlet it could use init() and destroy().
> >
> > I found XSPPage.init(parameters), which I can override to do the
> > initialization, but I am unclear on the tail end of the xsp life cycle.
> How
> > & when is it destroyed (in Cocoon 1.8.1) ? How is this type of thing
done
> > in XSP?
> >
> > I suppose that in this case, in which I am only doing JDBC stuff, I
could
> > try the sql taglib, but am unclear on how that would be done. Can
> > <?cocoon-process type="sql"?> safely be placed ahead of <?cocoon-process
> > type="xsp"?>? What would the resultant xsp-servlet look like?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >
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