[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss AS7 Development] - Best way to initialize environment on deployment / startup?

rushead [http://community.jboss.org/people/rushead] created the discussion "Best way to initialize environment on deployment / startup?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/616310#616310 -------------------------------------------------------------- I am trying to port my war file from JBoss AS 5.1 to JBoss AS 7. To provide a correct resource management I have to initialize my specific environment when the war file is deployed, before the Servlets are instantiated. I already tried 2 ways: 1. Implementation of the environment initialization in a ServletContextListener* The #contextInitialized is called when all Servlet are instantiated --> little too late... 2. Implementation of the environment initialization in another Servlet (in #init), use "<load-on-startup>"* The implemented servlet is always initialized after the normal Servlet (<load-on-startup> is ignored?!) * The only difference between the two servlets is that the StartupServlet is implementing Servlet the "old" way and the real Servlet is using JaxWS (@WebService) And now my questions: * Why is the ServletContextListener called when all Servlets are instantiated? * Why is "<load-on-startup>" ignored when the implementation differ only in the WS implementation? * Last but not least: What is the best and usual way to initialize a custom environment for several servlets in a war file?* The initialization / startup servlet should run on Tomcat also if possible... -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/616310#616310] Start a new discussion in JBoss AS7 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]