What does loadonstartup in a web.xml file achieve?

[radhika743]

What does loadonstartup in a web.xml file achieve?

[t_mohan]

Hi Radhika,

If you want a servlet to be executed when your server is started or restarted then we'll be specifying the servlet name in the Loadonstartup tab in the web.xml file. Please refer the code below and try executing it and u'll find the difference



servlet
servlet-name>TestServlet/servlet-name
servlet-class>TestServlet/servlet-class
load-on-startup>1/load-on-startup
/servlet

Sorry, i didnot indent this thing because while displaying the string from the database, the people who has developed this thing didnot handle the escape sequences for the XML string i think so --- note it down administrators

Please let me know your questions

Thank You,

[harikotha]

Hi ,
U can control the creation of a servlet at the start up of server i mean if u specified 1 on load on startup tag for a perticular servlet then it will creates tht specific servlet first and then rest of the objcts will created by the server according to the no
i mean every web application may contains more than one servlet and u may write those servlets in any order and using u can control the creation of a servlet becoz we dont know tht when the server creates object for a servlet and for which servlet it creates

Originally Posted by radhika743

What does loadonstartup in a web.xml file achieve?

[writetokaruna@yahoo.com]

the sub-element indicates the order in which each servlet should be loaded.Lower positive values are loaded first.If the value is nagative or unspecified, then the container can load the servlet at anytime during startup.


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Regards,

R.P.Karunakaran.