Thanks Timothy, I'm actually looking more for a way to do it with Tomcat out of the box. Like if a customer has Tomcat installed, I would just want to put my jars into some lib directory and then add this ??? entry into this ??? xml file and it will call start() on your class?
Would it be possible for me to have a Valve to do this? Forgive me for my ignorance, but I don't know the tomcat architecture that well yet, just what little I've read. As long as it starts before the web apps that is all I need. Mike Wannamaker -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Collett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 17, 2006 8:26 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat Not An App Server On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Mike Wannamaker wrote: > So I would like to be able to somehow have Tomcat start our core > services, much the way that JBoss would, before loading any web apps. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how that could be accomplished. My guess (which should be taken with a grain of salt, as I'm relatively new at this myself) is you want to subclass StandardHost or StandardEngine, and have the start() method initialize your core services, and the stop() method shut them down. If subclassing those is as easy as subclassing StandardContext was for me, it should be as simple as calling super.start() and super.stop () then calling whatever initialization methods you need to run. Timothy Collett -- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. - Theodore Roosevelt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
