A web application that is not mine needs to be initialized after it starts before some resources are available. Manually, I would start tomcat (9.0.0.M9 on redhat linux) then request http://example.com:8080/start-up.
The web application has a servlet configured with <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>. I am attempting to do the initialization by creating a servlet that is configured with <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>. But, I have not figured out how to use the 1st servlet from the 2nd. The second servlet only implements the init method. It is never going to receive a request. Its only purpose is to invoke the first servlet. How can I find the path of the other servlet and send it a request, without having first received a request? I can’t use a ServletRequestListener, because I want the initialization to occur before the first servlet receives its first request. Kendall
