WebListener as jar

[Mihai Caraman <ca...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

First of all, I'm new to tomcat and somewhat to java, but I got a question
that I couldn't find answer to it.

So, I'm currently running my war on tomcat7/Servlet3/jdk1.6.
My war basically has (among plain classes) a Servlet for requests and a
WebListener (ServletContextListener) for continuous processing  .

My question is: How can I change the class that now is a WebListener to
start at a given command, not when Tomcat starts.

I looked around at how to start a class in a war like in a jar (setting
manifest for corresponding main class), but with no success.

The final behavior that I'm looking for is to have a servlet that is ran by
tomcat, but at the same time, have access to static objects in the class
that is now used as a Listener. This is needed for repetitive testing
without having to wait for the server redeploying.
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Thank you ever so much!
Mihai

Re: WebListener as jar

[Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>]

2011/7/22 Mihai Caraman <ca...@gmail.com>:

> The final behavior that I'm looking for is to have a servlet that is ran by
> tomcat, but at the same time, have access to static objects in the class
> that is now used as a Listener. This is needed for repetitive testing
> without having to wait for the server redeploying.

I do not get you - how do you plan to survive deployment?

To share an object between a listener and a servlet in the same webapp
the usual way is to use ServletContext.setAttribute().

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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