Wow... that's kinda interesting. I'll have to test out the behaviour in
Tomcat. Thanks for the info. =)
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> Richard Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13/02/2003 02:19:41
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> Subject: Re: [Newbie] Running Merlin
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> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 06:40, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> > On the subject of early failure - I don't see how your going to get a
> > fail condition earlier than init() - unless Merlin is hosting the
> > web-server --> webserver is hosting a web-app --> web-app is suppled
> > with services based on dependencies that are pre-assembled by Merlin
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> Actually, if you specify the servlet to be loaded at startup the init is
> called right away. Check out the <load-on-startup> element for a
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> The short and skinny of it is that if the value is 1 or more then the
> servlet is initialized when it is deployed. The value determines where
> it is in the order of initialization, with 1 being the highest
> precedence. So, to have a servlet be the first loaded when deployed you
> want your web.xml to look like the following.
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> <web-app>
> ...
> <servlet>
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> ...
> </web-app>
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> Using this parameter the initialization will fail at deployment giving
> you the error messages before the first user hits it.
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> I actually found that on WebSphere 4.0 <load-on-startup> with any value
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> load the servlet on startup. We had previously believed that '0' would not
> load the servlet. This caused us some problems. Meant I had to get changes.
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> Not sure what other Web Containers do orwhether this behaviour is
> non-standard.
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> You may need to make sure about this behaviour.
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