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Question

I have a web.xml file..in which i have
<servlet>
<servlet-name>InetServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>msl.com.common.InetBankServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>PendingLCBGServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>msl.com.servlets.PendingLCBGServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
there are two <load-on-startup> tag in which i have two values 1 and 2...what it means....in '1'it will load on start of application but what about the second one which have the value of '2'....please help on this..

Answer 1

MindMills,
<servlet>
<servlet-name>firstServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myservlet.servletOne</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>secondServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myservlet.servletTwo</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>thirdServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myservlet.servletThree</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
Generally servlet is loaded into the server when the server get the request from the client(Browser or Jsp file)for corresponding Servelt.Inorder to request from the client ...if we wish to load the servlets while Server startUp we will go for the <load-on-startup>Priority of the servlet to load<load-on-startup> tag.
Step 1:
Here load on start up does the initialization of the corresponding servlet while loading or up the server only.First it will loads the firstServlet ,load-on-startup tag Contains value 1 among all servelts in web.xml file
Step 2:
After loading firstServlet it will loads secondServlet based on load-on-startup value has "2"....after thirdServlet.
Step 3: Here we are giving priorities to our Servlets among all Servlets to load into server while server UP only by using the order..
Thanks,
Ram
Edited by: RamGoud on Mar 5, 2008 4:23 AM