2015-07-19 9:26 GMT+03:00 Manuri Amaya Perera <amaya....@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I am using tomcat 7.0.34. I've written a simple Lifecycle listener > implementing org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener. > > I am simply overriding the lifecycleEvent method and printing the event > type. When a web application is being deployed, the first event I can see > is before_start. > But there should be several events before that such as before_init. > > Is this the expected behavior?
Reproducible with the current 7.0.63. This is an expected behaviour. Context itself is configured by a listener. The listeners are added by org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig#processContextConfig() - parses context.xml files (the global ones and the one for the web application) - called from o.a.c.startup.ContextConfig#contextConfig() - called from o.a.c.startup.ContextConfig#init() - called from o.a.c.startup.lifecycleEvent() on Lifecycle.AFTER_INIT_EVENT At the time of the "after_init" event the "before_init" event has already happened. For reference, reproduction source code a sample listener class, to be put into catalina.base/lib/test [[[ package test; import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleEvent; import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener; import org.apache.juli.logging.Log; import org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory; public class TestListener implements LifecycleListener { private final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass()); @Override public void lifecycleEvent(LifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Event: [" + event.getType() + "]"); } } ]]] configuration, catalina.base/webapps/examples/META-INF/context.xml [[[ <Context> <Listener className="test.TestListener" /> </Context> ]]] Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org