Re: [Webwork-devel] Spec-compliant Action Startup

[Victor S. <vsa...@ho...>]

ServletContextListener is your very good friend, aka known as the Wolf, or 
the cleaner, usually interpreted by Harvey Keitel!. Call him up, he will 
solve your problem.

/V

>From: Jim...@do...
>To: "web...@li..." 
><web...@li...>
>Subject: [Webwork-devel] Spec-compliant Action Startup
>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:41:45 -0500
>
>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




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