Hello, First of all, I'm new to tomcat and somewhat to java, but I got a question that I couldn't find answer to it.
So, I'm currently running my war on tomcat7/Servlet3/jdk1.6. My war basically has (among plain classes) a Servlet for requests and a WebListener (ServletContextListener) for continuous processing . My question is: How can I change the class that now is a WebListener to start at a given command, not when Tomcat starts. I looked around at how to start a class in a war like in a jar (setting manifest for corresponding main class), but with no success. The final behavior that I'm looking for is to have a servlet that is ran by tomcat, but at the same time, have access to static objects in the class that is now used as a Listener. This is needed for repetitive testing without having to wait for the server redeploying. * If this has nothing to do with tomcat and the answer is not of general interest for this mailing list, please reply privately to my email address, directing me to an appropriate forum/mailing list.* Thank you ever so much! Mihai
