You can use the WEB-INF/web.xml to similar effect or you can also declare objects to have application scope, then you have a global object that you can access anywhere. Hamish
> -----Original Message----- > From: neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:15 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: global.jsa > > > Is there such a thing as a global.jsa file in Tomcat? > > I first saw this concept (an idea taken from ASP's > global.asa) implemented > in JRUN. > > If there is a global.jsa, does anyone know of any docs on > this? If not, is > there an alternative? The reason I would want to use this is > to instantiate, > populate, and cache a few objects upon startup of the application. If > Tomcat does not provide a global.jsa...does anyone know how > otherwise to > achieve the goal? > > Thanks. > Neal > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>