On Apr 6, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
Erik: Are you just talking about using <load-on-startup> for a
servlet, or is there some other recent addition to he Servlet spec for
registering an arbitrary class that should be constructed once per
application with init/destroy methods that should be called
appropriately
... i can't seem to find anything like that (other then making a
servlet
with no path mapping)
There is a ServletContextListener that can be registered in web.xml
as a <listener>. This existed in Servlet 2.3 also.
Erik