> Peter Huber wrote > > I think init should be called on startup of the servlet container. > > So if you have very long lasting init procedures better use init. > > I fail to see the point here. How does the time taken to execute the > initialization matter here. > Init is called on startup of servlet-container (afaik). Therefore initializations are done before the very first call to a servlet in your webapp. If your webapp depend on resources like a db-connection pool then I think it's neat to have such resources at hand after startup or cancel startup (if possible) if resources are not available.
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