Hi,
See ServletContextListener as well as the <listener> tag. This assumes you're
running in a container that supports at least the servlet 2.3 spec.
On Monday 13 April 2009 7:42:26 pm J. Talafous wrote:
> I want to have a background thread that is crunching data in the
> background of my web app.
>
> I am aware of <load-on-startup/> in the deployment descriptor of a web
> app. I could start the thread in one of these servlets that load on
> startup. But this doesn't seem proper... the servlet will handle
> requests when I know that there will never be any. It is extra
> overhead that goes to waste.
>
> It seems that there would be hooks some where in the web container
> that I could use to create POJOs and they could in turn start the
> thread. Are there any, especially specified in web.xml?
>
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