Another thing you can do is use the ServiceManager extension that's
under the contrib
directory in CVS. I've just started to look at it myself. Its seems to
be a fairly
new contributions, so documentation is pretty scarse.
Calvin
19 Jul 2001 21:05:32 -0700, Fabien Le Floc'h wrote:
> Thank you for the tip, this is definitely working and is not too ugly.
>
> However I still find a little bit stupid we have to create a new Servlet just to use
>its init method. Or maybe not if your Log4j servlet allows you to modify the logging
>/ the log4j properties remotely (but that is another project, and it is bad not to
>use struts for that).
>
> I tried just to extend the ActionServlet and rewrite the init method (adding lines
>to it). After modifying the web.xml, it still did not work. Has anyone a clue why?
>Did anybody try to extend ActionServlet?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabien
>
> "Abraham Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi Fabien,
> >
> > I typically do this in a StartupServlet in my web.xml.
> >
> > Here is an example of how I initialize Log4j:
> >
> > <web-app>
> >
> > <context-param>
> > <param-name>weblogic.jsp.keepgenerated</param-name>
> > <param-value>true</param-value>
> > </context-param>
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-name>log4j</servlet-name>
> >
> > <servlet-class>com.infogain.DOG.logging.servlet.Log4jServlet</servlet-class>
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>debug</param-name>
> > <param-value>2</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>wlpi_log4j_conf</param-name>
> > <param-value>/WEB-INF/wlpi_log4j_conf.properties</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>base_category</param-name>
> > <param-value>com.infogain.DOG</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>base_priority</param-name>
> > <param-value>info</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
> > </servlet>
> >
> > ...
> >
> > The init() method of Log4jServlet handles stuff that needs to run before
> > Struts (struts's <load-on-startup> is 2).
> >
> > --Abraham
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > > Fabien Le Floc'h
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:58 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: web application initialization
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to know if it is possible to have some code called
> > > at the web application initialization (something like the init()
> > > method of the first servlet called by the web app - which here is
> > > ActionServlet).
> > >
> > > Should I just extend ActionServlet?
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Fabien
> > >
> > >
