I want a method (or some functionality) to be executed after my web application starts (context loaded). I am using spring 3.0 as framework.
I tried using ServletContextListener which I implemented in my class
my listener class
package myapp.listner;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
public class MyContextListner implements ServletContextListener{
public static long appStart=0L;
@Override
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
System.out.println("Context Destroyed");
}
@Override
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
appStart=System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Context Initialised");
}
}
and part of web.xml is
<listner>
<listner-class>myapp.listner.MyContextListner</listner-class>
</listner>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/forms/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
but its not printing that message.....
Please help me....