Hi, I would like to know how could I jump start my web service in tomcat before any call from the client is made. My first version only needed to be stateless and that worked fine, since I noticed that each call from the client creates a new object in the server. However, now I would like to create some threads because I have a custom administration module (session/security/database).
I can create them when the first call is made (using statics), but I would like to get rid of the overhead in the first call by somehow jump starting the application to do the loading and initialization that the application threads need to do, so that the when the first call is made, there is no overhead to pay. I am not sure. Is this possible? I am probably not understanding fully the servlet model or how tomcat/axis is supposed to be stateful at the server side. I guess, if there is a smarter way to do this without using threads/statics I would like to know where I could find an example. Thanks in advance, --Luis R.
