… you could automatically register any number of servlet event listeners (ServletContextListener, HttpSessionListener, ServletRequestListener, and more …) without any additional web.xml line?
The Java Server Pages 2.0 specification dictates that all .tld files inside META-INF directories, from jars in the web application classpath (WEB-INF/lib), must be read and parsed by the Servlet Container (JSP.7.1.9 – Event Listeners).
Fortunately, .tld files accept the <listener> element. What about creating reusable jars (web frameworks?) and do their setup inside such listeners, as Sun JSF RI (Mojarra) is doing:
<!-- jsf-impl.jar!/META-INF/jsf_core.tld -->
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd"
version="2.1">
<description>
The core JavaServer Faces custom actions that are independent of
any particular RenderKit.
</description>
<tlib-version>1.2</tlib-version>
<short-name>f</short-name>
<uri>http://java.sun.com/jsf/core</uri>
...
<!--
This ServletContextListener initializes the runtime environment
of the JavaServer Faces Reference Implementation when a web
application including it is initialized by the container.
-->
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
</listener>
...
</taglib>
That said, why am I still having to add <listener> from web frameworks in my web.xml?
It’s so interesting now, where I work we have a private “web framework”, I’ll try this one.
Thanks a lot.
I wish I could do the same for servlets and filters!
This buggy wordpress installation lost my post last paragraph!
It should be the question:
“Why isn’t there ServletContext.addServlet(Class< ? extends Servlet>) ?”
“That said, why am I still having to add from web frameworks in my web.xml?”
Because if you do like you proposed, it will be dificult to change the url “extensions”
Ok, thats probably a very bad excuse!
- ServletContext.addServlet(Class< ? extends Servlet>, String urlPattern)
- @Servlet(“*.do”)
It’s a good tip