> Marcus Crafter wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Hope all is well.
>
> Parts of our Cocoon 2 application use external information
> that needs
> to be initialised at startup time.
>
> Currently we have a separate servlet that is initialised at
> container
> startup time (specified by the web.xml). Part of it's init
> sequence is
> performs our initialisation routines.
>
> I'm beginning to dislike this approach though, because this servlet
> is no longer used for any requests (Cocoon 2 replaced it) - it's now
> purely used for these initialisation methods.
>
> One of my thoughts was to subclass CocoonServlet and place our init
> routines in this class.
>
> I'm wondering though, what does everyone else do ? Is this
> subclassing frowned upon (if so, should those C2 classes be
> final?) ?
> Does everyone have an extra init servlet ? or am I the only one with
> this problem ?
>
> It would be good if we had an 'official' way to do this, where (if
> subclassing is not the way to go) we had some method to initialise
> user named classes at Cocoon 2 startup time ?
>
I think subclassing is the way to go. All other configuration schemes
are in my opinion overcomplicating things.
Carsten
Open Source Group sunShine - b:Integrated
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> What does everyone else think ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
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