wats the purpose of servletcontextlistener class

Hi joy,


servletcontextlistener class handles notifications about changes to the servlet context of the web application that they are part of.


This can be explained as if someone is present on the server and dynamically informing us about the events that are occuring on the server.

There acquire need of listners.

Therefore, servletcontextlistner is helpful in informing about context initilazation and destruction.


Eg:


import javax.servlet.servletcontextlistener;
import javax.servlet.servletcontextevent;
import javax.servlet.*;

public class mylistener implements servletcontextlistener {
{

private servletcontext context = null;

/*this method is invoked when the web application has been removed and is no longer able to accept requests */

and...............

Public void contextdestroyed(servletcontextevent event)

{

//output a simple message to the server's console system.out.println("the simple web app. Has been removed");

this.context = null;
}

//this method is invoked when the web application is ready to service requests.

Public void contextinitialized(servletcontextevent event)

{
this.context = event.getservletcontext();

//output a simple message to the server's console system.out.println("the simple web app. Is ready");

} }


<web-app>
<listener>
<listener-class>
com.listeners.mycontextlistener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet/>
<servlet-mapping/>
</web-app>



Thanks...

Riju.