I've seen a few responses to how to implement Avalon in a servlet environmet and the typical answer is to check out Cocoon. Cocoon seems to implement the main container only in one servlet. What I needed to do is make my main application container available to all of my servlets in my application and have it properly started and shut down with the Tomcat servlet engine. I think this is more generic and might be a more common requirement.
The approach I took was instead of having my main container residing in one servlet, I made it a singleton. Then I created an InitServlet as I saw somewhere for initizlizing Log4j and set this to load at startup by including it in the webapps web.xml file. Just like Cocoon, I made the InitServlet's init() and destroy() methods create and dispose of my main container. So the end result is the life of my main container then gets tied to the starting and stopping of my tomcat server and all of my servlets can access it. Seems to work pretty well. Any comments on this method? I can post some code if there is any interest. Regards, Kerry Todyruik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
