How to specify a startup servlet for an application (CONTEXT)?

[Julia Kuznetsov]

I need to load couple xml files into memory and store them in ServletContext
when my application starts. I created a servlet to do that, but I can't
figure out how to make this servlet run automatically whem the app starts.
Is there smthg in server.xml that I can define to run this servlet?

Please help!

Julia Kuznetsov

Relative file path

[Julia Kuznetsov]

Is there a way to use relative file path (ex. "examples/docs/test.xml") when
accessing(reading etc.) it from servlet rather then absolute (ex.
"D:\smthg\app\docs\test.xml") path.

Ex. :  I have web app "examples" that mapped to d:\smthg\app.
 My file "test.xml" is in d:\smthg\app\docs.
Can I access it using "examples/docs/test.xml? If yes, how?
Right now it's translating it to Tomcat bin dir:
"D:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.2\bin\examples\docs\test.xml"

Sorry, I'm new to Appache-Tomcat world...