Another question.... Currently, I'm modifying an alplication that HAS a struts plug-in for creating Application wide stuff... the thing I want to create will depend on that "stuff" already being there, so would it be safe to assume that it will exist if I simply implement a vanilla ContextListener and try to load up stuff in the ContextInitialized?
My fear is that in the ContectInitialized, I need things like my DB info, and some other stuff that gets attended to in the struts plug in... and what if it's not there? Would it be safer to create ANOTHER struts plug in below the existing one that does the loading up of my application wide data (country codes etc) Discuss P.S., I'm reading furiously in the "professional java server programming" book as I write this ha ha ha 14 Feb 2005 14:16:17 -0500, David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see your points. We arent sure yet what version of Weblogic we'll be > deploying to, but I'm developing in Tomcat. Sounds like an open > question to me. > > Where would you point me to learn how to do this the ContextListener way? > > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:10:19 -0800, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:03:24 -0800 (PST), Martin Wegner > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > A PlugIn works nicely as well. I am not sure which is the recommended > > > Struts practice. > > > > If you're on a Servlet 2.3 or later container (which is when > > ServletContextListener was introduced), you should use it instead of > > plugins: > > > > * There are also other listeners that you should > > explore which are available in this version -- did > > you know, for example, that you can be notified > > whenever anyone else in your app adds, removes, > > or replaces an application or session scope attribute? > > (In Servlet 2.4 you can do this for request scope too.) > > > > * The way a Struts plugin is implemented is to have > > the init() and destroy() methods called from the > > corresponding methods on ActionServlet. Technically, > > an app server is allowed to destroy servlet instances > > any time it wants to, so you're not guaranteed that destroy() > > *really* means the application is shutting down. > > > > * Context listeners work in non-Struts apps too; > > one less concept to learn. > > > > Craig > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > -Dave > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
