Starting and stopping servlets on tomcat startup and shutdown

[Zsolt Koppany]

Hi,

as the subject shows is it possible that tomcat calls a class when
tomcat is just started or when it is shutting down?
My application needs database and some other external resources and it
would be nice if I could control those resources depending on the status
of tomcat.

Zsolt

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