You have to use bolts prepare method or spouts init method. A worker can be executing multiple instances of different bolts/spouts.
On 5/19/14, Gaurav Sehgal <gsehgal....@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to do some initialization before the worker goes ahead and spawns > the different the threads, as I need to create a initialziaze a resource > which will be available by all the threads. > > The prepare method; can be called for each bolt. Is there method where > which is called when worker is started. >
