Hello, After continuing to dig further and perform some additional debugging, it turns out that the "init" methods are being called on startup.
The problem is that the DataSource which I'm pulling from the ServletContext is failing to initialize itself on start-up, but succeeds when moving the .war file into the webapps directory. I'll continue to debug this further and respond with more information as it becomes available. Thanks, Justin. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: RE: Tomcat 6.0.18 Servlet Loading/Reloading > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:00:38 -0500 > > > Hi Chuck, > > Thanks for the response. I guess perhaps I was not clear enough in my > configuration or description of the issue. > > Each Servlet in the application has <load-on-startup>X</load-on-startup> > where X represents the numeric order in which I've assigned them to start. > > Also what I did mention previously is that "init" is NOT called when I browse > to the URI, however the Servlet is loaded as my System.out.println statements > in "doGet/doPost" are being output to catalina.out and they also show that > "init" was never called (by checking parameters that should have been > initialized by "init". > > Lastly, the reason I say "init' methods is that there IS more than one, and > Tomcat calls both of them when initializing a Servlet. If you think this is > incorrect, make sure to @Override both "init" and "init(ServletConfig > config)" and have different logging statements. You will see both of them > being executed when Tomcat loads the Servlet. > > I hope this helps better clarify the situation. > > Justin. > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:46:50 -0600 > > Subject: RE: Tomcat 6.0.18 Servlet Loading/Reloading > > > > > From: Justin Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: Tomcat 6.0.18 Servlet Loading/Reloading > > > > > > Basically when I restart Tomcat, it doesn't call any of the > > > "init" methods of the Servlet > > > > Unless you have <load-on-startup> set for the servlet in your webapp's > > WEB-INF/web.xml, that is correct behavior for a Tomcat restart. The init() > > method (there can only be one per servlet) should be called upon first > > reference to a URL that matches a <url-pattern> element inside one of your > > <servlet-mapping> elements. If <load-on-startup> is set, the init() method > > will be called at Tomcat restart for each such servlet. > > > > > however all of the initialization which was to be > > > performed by the "init" methods was never done. > > > > You keep using the word "methods" when there is only one init() method for > > a given servlet; why is that? > > > > > When I copy the existing war file from the webapps directory > > > to another location, update the modify timestamp and then > > > move it back into the webapps directory, the "init" methods > > > are then called and the application works properly. > > > > This is also correct behavior for initial or re-deployment. Although the > > spec doesn't require it, Tomcat calls the init() methods to verify webapp > > viability at these times. > > > > - Chuck > > > > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and > > its attachments from all computers. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________________________________
