Does <listener> element cannot be before <context-param>

[Maciek Mike]

Hi I'm preparing for SCWCD.

In one of mock questions is mentioned that <listener> element cannot be before <context-param> in web.xml.
I think that is not true. Am I right?

[Ankit Garg]

I think the order used to matter in earlier versions of Servlets where the web.xml was validated against a DTD, this is however no longer applicable...

[Luis Centeno]

I think the order used to matter in earlier versions of Servlets where the web.xml was validated against a DTD, this is however no longer applicable...

This is correct...I tried deploying the following...

  <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
			xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
			xsi:SchemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	
	<listener>
		<listener-class>com.lagc.listener.MyContextListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
			
	<context-param>
		<param-name>personId</param-name>
		<param-value>1</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<context-param>
		<param-name>personName</param-name>
		<param-value>Luis</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>Context Listener Tester</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.lagc.servlet.MyContextListenerTester</servlet-class>
	</servlet>
	
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>Context Listener Tester</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/listener/contextListener.do</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>	
	
</web-app>  

...and there was no problem, listener perfectly worked.

Hope this will help you...regards

[Maciek Mike]

many thanks, it helped a lot :-)