AW: [C2] startup & user classes

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@sundn.de>]

> Marcus Crafter wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> 	Hope all is well.
> 
> 	Parts of our Cocoon 2 application use external information 
> that needs
> 	to be initialised at startup time.
> 
> 	Currently we have a separate servlet that is initialised at 
> container
> 	startup time (specified by the web.xml). Part of it's init 
> sequence is
> 	performs our initialisation routines.
> 	
> 	I'm beginning to dislike this approach though, because this servlet
> 	is no longer used for any requests (Cocoon 2 replaced it) - it's now
> 	purely used for these initialisation methods.
> 
> 	One of my thoughts was to subclass CocoonServlet and place our init
> 	routines in this class.
> 
> 	I'm wondering though, what does everyone else do ? Is this
> 	subclassing frowned upon (if so, should those C2 classes be 
> final?) ?
> 	Does everyone have an extra init servlet ? or am I the only one with
> 	this problem ?
> 
> 	It would be good if we had an 'official' way to do this, where (if
> 	subclassing is not the way to go) we had some method to initialise
> 	user named classes at Cocoon 2 startup time ?
> 
I think subclassing is the way to go. All other configuration schemes
are in my opinion overcomplicating things.


Carsten 

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> 	What does everyone else think ?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Marcus
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