hi; i have a servlet with <load-on-startup /> tag and no mapping is defined and it is working with tomcat 5.0.28
http://asahin.net -----Original Message----- From: Markus Schönhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:57 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Preload of servlet does not work with Tomcat 5.5.15 Tom Bednarz wrote: > I defined the following in the web.xml of my web application: > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>MTWInit</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>ch.smartsol.mtweb.servlets.MTWInit</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>MailConfiguration</param-name> > <param-value>/WEB-INF/config/Mail.properties</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > This servlet is NOT loaded at all. This is true for the following > situations: > > - when running in Eclipse (with MyEclipse IDE) debugger, the breakpoints > in the servlets init() function are NEVER hit > - when running tomcat as service (under Windows) no log entries are > written which means init() is never called > > Any idea what could be wrong?? WAG: maybe you did overload GenericServlet#init instead of overriding it. But I doubt that anyone can tell for sure with so little information provided. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]