Web application start up (With spring)

[Laxmikant Kumbhare]

Hello there,

I want a method (or some functionality) to be executed after my web application starts (context loaded). I am using spring 3.0 as framework.

I tried using ServletContextListener which I implemented in my class


my listener class

package myapp.listner;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;

public class MyContextListner implements ServletContextListener{
	
	public static long appStart=0L;
	@Override
	public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
		
		System.out.println("Context Destroyed");
	}

	@Override
	public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
		appStart=System.currentTimeMillis();
		System.out.println("Context Initialised");

	}

}

and part of web.xml is

<listner>
     <listner-class>myapp.listner.MyContextListner</listner-class>
    </listner>
    
    <servlet>
      <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
      
      <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    
    
    <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/forms/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    

but its not printing that message.....


Please help me....

[Mark Spritzler]

Spring has such a listener class already called ContextLoaderListener. Try using that. You also might have to set a <context-param> to point to your config files, unless you use the naming convention of applicationContext.xml and put that in the WEB-INF directory.

Mark