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

[Christoph S. <ch...@sc...>]

Jim...@do... wrote:

>
> 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?

I went with solution 3, and its really extremely simple. Just change the 
dispatcher class in web.xml.

>
> jim