"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> David Soroko wrote:
>
> > I am observing the following behavior which I do not understand (Tomcat 3.1
> > and 3.2b6)
> >
> > The setup:
> >
> > The appdev Hello sample servlet to which the method init (ServletConfig
> > config)
> > has been added. It just prints a line of text.
> >
> > To the servlet's web.xml the <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> element
> > has been added
> >
> > To the server.xml the Context element has been added:
> > <Context path=""
> > docBase="webapps/myapp"
> > debug="0"
> > >
> > </Context>
> >
> > What I see, is that when Tomcat starts the init() method is being invoked
> > twice.
> >
> > Is this a correct behavior or is there something illegal about path="" ?
> >
>
> David,
>
> Try as I might, I could not reproduce this with Tomcat 3.2 -- it always seems
> to call my init() method once and only once like it is supposed to. The only
> thing I can think of that might trigger what you are seeing is if you edited
> the file $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml instead of the web.xml inside your web
> application -- that would cause the servlet to get loaded once per web
> application (at least under 3.1).
>
> If this is not what you did, could you please zip up a copy of the web
> application directory you are using, so that I can reproduce exactly what you
> are seeing?
Once upon a time this happened when an application was defined by a <Context>
element and stored in the default webapps directory. Tomcat created one context
for the <Context> declaration and one for the the WAR (or expanded WAR) it found
in the webapps directory.
I haven't tested if this is the case still, but it might be. If so, I suggest
you
leave it as it is in 3.2. The simple work-around is to store applications
defined
by <Context> elements somewhere else than in webapps.
Hans
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