Is there a way to run a method/class only on Tomcat/Wildfly/Glassfish startup?
Solution 1
You could write a ServletContextListener
which calls your method from the contextInitialized()
method. You attach the listener to your webapp in web.xml, e.g.
<listener>
<listener-class>my.Listener</listener-class>
</listener>
and
package my;
public class Listener implements javax.servlet.ServletContextListener {
public void contextInitialized(ServletContext context) {
MyOtherClass.callMe();
}
}
Strictly speaking, this is only run once on webapp startup, rather than Tomcat startup, but that may amount to the same thing.
Solution 2
You can also use (starting Servlet v3) an annotated aproach (no need to add anything to web.xml):
@WebListener
public class InitializeListner implements ServletContextListener {
@Override
public final void contextInitialized(final ServletContextEvent sce) {
}
@Override
public final void contextDestroyed(final ServletContextEvent sce) {
}
}
Solution 3
I'm sure there must be a better way to do it as part of the container's lifecycle (edit: Hank has the answer - I was wondering why he was suggesting a SessonListener
before I answered), but you could create a Servlet which has no other purpose than to perform one-time actions when the server is started:
<servlet>
<description>Does stuff on container startup</description>
<display-name>StartupServlet</display-name>
<servlet-name>StartupServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.foo.bar.servlets.StartupServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
dcave555
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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dcave555 almost 2 years
I need to remove temp files on Tomcat startup, the pass to a folder which contains temp files is in applicationContext.xml.
Is there a way to run a method/class only on Tomcat startup?
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skaffman over 15 yearsBefore Servlet 2.4 (or was it 2.3?), that's what people did. But with the addition of context listeners, this is no longer necessary.
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serverpunk over 15 yearsThat's good tp know - a legacy application we're "refactoring" (it's not a rewrite from the ground up with a better framework and requirements changing all over the place, honest!) at the moment to run on a 2.4 container is still using this technique.
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Michael K almost 10 yearsThis is also portable across Java servlet containers. The best way in my opinion. Other options are listed here- blog.eisele.net/2010/12/…
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Vicky almost 9 years@skaffman but during the tomcat server in eclipse starts contextInitialized() function is calling but MyClass.INSTANCE is not calling.MyClass is a enum class and it creating INSTANCE once.Tomcat fails to start. the code is
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent contextEvent) { MongoDBClass.INSTANCE.getSomeDB().getCollection("UserDB"); context = contextEvent.getServletContext(); MongoDBClass.INSTANCE.getSomeDB().getCollection("UserDB"); }
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Hema about 7 yearsCan i add http server starting code within contextInitialized. Because after adding this am messed up with exception and errors