[Webwork-devel] Spec-compliant Action Startup

[<Jim...@do...>]

I need to perform some tasks when my servlet is deployed. (My servlet 
needs to spawn a Thread) I can't wait until someone decides to invoke one 
of my actions. Typically this is accomplished in the init() method of the 
servlet. Since we are writing actions in webwork, the servlet 
initialization is hidden from us. There are a few solutions that I can 
see:

1. Add a method signature to webwork.properties that is invoked when the 
ServletDispatcher's init method is invoked.
2. Somehow force an action to be invoked after deployment. (Make an http 
call against the servlet in the deployment script - kludgey).
3. Subclass DispatcherServlet, and override init().

Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a mechanism in web.xml 
that will support this?

jim