I bet you wish more web servers were like WebLogic which have provisions for. allows Servlets to be used for welcome pages. If interested, the link is: http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/webapp/components.html#109211
I remember trying this on Tomcat 5.X after reading that note but I really don't remember if it worked or not. Probably not. Regards, David Friedman / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laurie Harper Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:43 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: A couple of simple questions David Thielen wrote: > Asking again - thanks - dave > > -----Original Message----- > Hi; > > 1) I want my default page to be index.do so I set the following in web.xml: > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>index.do</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > > But instead I get a directory of files in my root when I go to the servlet. > I can do this which works: > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>index.txt</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > > It appears it wants a file. Not an issue (see item 2) but just wanted to > know what is going on. You're right, you can only use physical files as welcome files. The servlet spec doesn't support dynamic resources for this use. The standard solution is to use an index.jsp that simply forwards or redirects to a Struts action. > 2) My main page is a frameset. I tried having that be a do/jsp but when I > pressed refresh on the browser, it went back to the start page. So I made it > a html file and the three frames are .do urls. This works fine, I'm just > asking if this is the best way to do this. What do you mean 'went back to the start page'? Remember that refreshing a page that uses framesets refreshes the *frameset*, not the frames within it. > 3) I need to have a method called when my servlet first loads. Is a > listener the best way to do this? If it's your servlet, just implement its init() method. If you want to call other code on load of an arbitrary servlet there are various listener interfaces you can implement and register in web.xml. ServletContextListener [1] is probably the one you want in this case. L. [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/servletapi/javax/servlet/ServletContextListener.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
