[appengine-java] Re: How to detect the event of instantiating another instance of app

2011-09-18 Thread Art
Thank Gerald for sharing your knowledge. Personally, I kind feel a little strange for that, in spite of the nature of GAE app what needs to consider of multi-instances of app, GAE platform haven't provided any event hooks available what can be used across app instances, though the technical

[appengine-java] Re: How to detect the event of instantiating another instance of app

2011-09-14 Thread Art
Dear Didier, Thank you very much for your intention to help. I cannot come the good idea up with using load-on-startup element beside something like having a entity for the number of app instance in datastore and incrementing it in the servlet started up by that, then reading and comparing the

[appengine-java] Re: How to detect the event of instantiating another instance of app

2011-09-14 Thread Gerald Tan
AFAIK there's no way of being informed about the instantiation of another instance or change on a memcache value without accessing the memcache itself. The best solution is to use vm memory cache only for data that is going to be unchanged, changed only during known specific intervals, or that

[appengine-java] Re: How to detect the event of instantiating another instance of app

2011-09-13 Thread Didier Durand
Hi, You could try (didn't do it myself) the load-on-startup param with a value 0 in the servlet definition of a given servlet within web.xml This starts the servlet when the application is deployed in starting container. That should allow you to do what you want regards didier On Sep 13,