On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:55:08 -0400
Allen Johnson wrote:
> > Is there some way to convince Jetty (or tomcat, or ...) to run the
> > init methods of a servlet before the first request comes in? Or maybe
> > a pointer to the appropriate forum?
>
> You can tell a servlet to init on startup with some
> Is there some way to convince Jetty (or tomcat, or ...) to run the
> init methods of a servlet before the first request comes in? Or maybe
> a pointer to the appropriate forum?
You can tell a servlet to init on startup with something like this in
your web.xml:
test-servlet
myapp.servlet
I finally got back to the web app that needed init'ing before
processing requests, and got that working (not quite as
straightforward as the various mails/docs make it look).
The problem now is that the init runs when the first request comes in
after the app has been started. While this works, it