passing intialisation values to an application

[KOla Oyedeji]

Are initialisation paramters loaded when they are referenced or earlier? I have some values passed to my application using the context-param element in my web.xml. Are these parameters read from the web.xml every time they are needed or are are they read once and then cached?
Also is there anywhere where some code can be executed the first time an application is started to initialise the application?
thanks

[Dominic Paquette]

Hi,
I think the <context-param> get read when the application starts
To get notified of initialization you can use javax.servlet.ServletContextListener

Hope this helps
Dominic