You are creating a ServletContextListener, which must be configured in
the "listeners" section of your web.xml file: simply mention the
ServletContextListener in there, and the contextInitialized() method
will be called when the webapp is initialized (i.e. once for the
life of
the webapp).
If you restart Tomcat, your webapp will be initialized again during
startup and your code will execute again.
-chris
ServletContextListener is a new feature of servlet spec 2.4 (tomcat
5.0.x, 5.5.x). The essential parts are:
1. write a class implementing the
javax.servlet.ServletContextListener interface. The interface itself
requires two methods -- contextInitialized() [see below] and
contextDestroyed().
2. Add the listener to your web.xml in a <listener> attribute.
3. Deploy your app and the contextInitialized() method below will be
executed once each time the webapp is started.
The servlet spec itself and the servlet api javadocs have complete
information on implementing this.
--David
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Chris and David,
Fantastic, thanks so much. I'll give this a shot and see how it
goes. Your advice has been extremely helpful. Thanks again!
-Ryan
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