RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Srofe, Douglas (c)
Craig, I have had some of the same issues to deal with. I accomplished this using a filter instead of a listener. The reason I used a filter is because it had access to the request and response information. A listener only had access to the session. For config information I used a class I

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Turner, John
Why not just use a properties file? John -Original Message- From: Craig Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:19 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Managing a Listener On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:11, Srofe, Douglas (c) wrote: Craig

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Milt Epstein
On 10 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:11, Srofe, Douglas (c) wrote: Craig, [...snip...] If this is not enough to get you started, I would be happy to fill in some more specifics. i see your point, and that makes good sense. in my particular case, i think

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Sexton, George
Why not create a singleton class to hold the information? -Original Message- From: Craig Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 September, 2002 11:56 AM To: tomcat-user Subject: Managing a Listener i have a need for some data that is needed by every page. Ideally, this would

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Turner, John
be anything you want, like a pointer to a properties file or anything else. John -Original Message- From: Craig Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:54 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Managing a Listener On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:21

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Turner, John
: Managing a Listener On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:58, Turner, John wrote: From the 4.0 docs: where did you find this? i'm trying to figure out how the listener can obtain basic site configuration info like loggers and directories now, but i can't seem to find anything that takes about

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Sexton, George
This has already been said, but use a properties file. If you ever have more than one instance, dealing with the XML files is very painful. -Original Message- From: Craig Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 September, 2002 12:57 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Managing

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Durham David Cntr 805CSS/SCBE
-Original Message- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:14 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Managing a Listener On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Turner, John wrote: From the 4.0 docs: If you have implemented a Java object that needs

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:11, Srofe, Douglas (c) wrote: Craig, [...snip...] If this is not enough to get you started, I would be happy to fill in some more specifics. i see your point, and that makes good sense. in my particular case, i think that the session would still be a better way

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
logger from a filter. whew. -Original Message- From: Craig Longman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:19 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Managing a Listener On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:11, Srofe, Douglas (c) wrote: Craig, [...snip

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:53, Sexton, George wrote: Why not create a singleton class to hold the information? this is, in effect, what it would be (i imagine there is only one filter/listener created, but i'm not sure). but INITIALIZING that information is what i'm trying to figure out, i want

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Milt Epstein
On 10 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:48, Durham David Cntr 805CSS/SCBE wrote: Here's an example: web-app listener listener-classpackage.Listener/listener-class /listener /web-app I think this is what you should do if you are just initializing

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:58, Turner, John wrote: From the 4.0 docs: [...snip...] Note that a Listener can have any number of additional properties that may be configured from this element. Attribute names are matched to corresponding JavaBean property names using the standard property

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Milt Epstein
On 10 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 18:16, Milt Epstein wrote: Remember, you're talking about a context listener, not a servlet listener. Their lifecycles are different. The servlet lifecycle is pretty well known -- that is, it is possible that servlets can be

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:58, Turner, John wrote: From the 4.0 docs: where did you find this? i'm trying to figure out how the listener can obtain basic site configuration info like loggers and directories now, but i can't seem to find anything that takes about listeners --

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:48, Durham David Cntr 805CSS/SCBE wrote: Here's an example: web-app listener listener-classpackage.Listener/listener-class /listener /web-app I think this is what you should do if you are just initializing some objects. I'm using this on a project to

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 18:16, Milt Epstein wrote: Remember, you're talking about a context listener, not a servlet listener. Their lifecycles are different. The servlet lifecycle is pretty well known -- that is, it is possible that servlets can be created and destroyed by the servlet

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:53, Milt Epstein wrote: On 10 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: well, i'm going to have to be very careful. i have no idea what context i'm receiving, but it doesn't appear to be the ActionServlet, there are no init parameters in it at all. I'm confused (or

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Milt Epstein
On 11 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:53, Milt Epstein wrote: [ ... ] As to init parameters, I'm not sure what you're trying to do with them, but note that you can set up context parameters in the web.xml, and that you can get the context (via the

RE: Managing a Listener

2002-09-10 Thread Craig Longman
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 02:08, Milt Epstein wrote: On 11 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: Back to basics: A servlet container will have a bunch of contexts (aka web applications), and each context will have a bunch of servlets/JSPs (where a bunch of basically means one or more). with ya. Each