Opinion: best way to do module configuration in jsf?

Question

Hi all,
I am building modules for a webapp as jar files which basically contain facelet templates, navigation rules, beans and other jsf goodies.
One problem with this is how to do module configuration when the webapp is started. Since the module can't modify web.xml to add a startup listener, I need another way.
So far, my best idea is to create a PhaseListener and use Lifecycle.removePhaseListener to deregister it as soon as it has run once. I'm just wondering... is there a better way?
Cheers,
Roger

Answer 1

I see, so Thread.sleep is indeed the way to go?I'd use Timer, but there's no reason why Thread.sleep shouldn't work.
Re the crash, there's no stacktrace at all. I usually
run it, and then leave it... and after random time
(hours), it just stops without any exception.
Are you starting it from the command line with java whatever...? If so, and you're getting no stacktrace, then either it's ending cleanly because you told it to, or you're smothering an exception with something like catch (Exception exc) {
    // do nothing
}