Having suffered through this problem this morning, here is what I added to my weblogic.properties file to successfully get the ActionServlet to initialize at the startup of Weblogic. this works like a charm and is way better than rewriting code? and browsing to a .do? Thanks for the help everyone gave me. ========= paste below into weblogic.properties =========== #setup struts control weblogic.httpd.register.ActionServlet=org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet weblogic.system.startupClass.StartMyServlet=weblogic.servlet.utils.ServletSt artup weblogic.system.startupArgs.StartMyServlet=servlet=ActionServlet