loading classes at startup

[anupa oru]

Hi Guys,

I would like to load class at Jboss start up which will call backend systems and get some static data and I need to save that info in some variable. After server actually started I need to access loaded startup class variable to get that info, I know I have to use MBean for this but not quite sure specifics of it, so please suggest me best ways of doing this. I need to make sure this approach works for clustering, I am using JBoss 4.0.

Thanks alot,
Anu

[Dave Salter]

An MBean will certainly allow you to store some data at startup time as the MBean will be deployed when JBoss starts up.

If you want to have some data that is available to the cluster, you may want to look at putting it into the JBoss cache and have the cache replicated across the cluster.