I know that per the Servlet Spec 2.3 that Tomcat will start up the Listeners first and then start up any servlets. However, I am unsure (the spec is ambigious) on when the Servlet container is supposed to start servicing incoming requests.
I have a Servlet that has a load-on-startup setting of 2 and this initializes some application settings. Granted, the best avenue for this is a Listener.... I'm wondering if Tomcat will service HTTP requests before or after the any load-on-startup Servlets are loaded. Specically Tomcat 5.5.28 to 5.5.31.
