handler's init function not called at time of Tomcat startup

["Agarwal, Naresh" <na...@informatica.com>]

Hi
 
I'm using a handler in Web Service written using Axis for session maintenance.
 
Inside the init function of this handler, i'm loading some classes as I want to load these classes at the time of start up of Tomcat.. 
 
After deploying the service, when I start Tomcat,  init function of this handler is _NOT_ called
rather this is called when I try to invoke Axis Servlet by opening the url   http://localhost:8080/services/servicename
in browser.
 
Should not the init function be called at start-up of Tomcat?
 
thanks,
Naresh