java - spring mvc servlet initialization

Question

I am new to spring MVC. I am looking for a place in my spring mvc applicationwhere I can initialize all sorts of things in the application. usually I did that in the init() method of the my main servlet but now the dispatcher servlet is of spring and I cannot overide the init function.

what is the best practice?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use a ServletContextListener and define it in web.xml:

<listener>
    <listener-class>com.company.YourListenerClass</listener-class>
</listener>

(you make a class which implements ServletContextListener and implement the contextInitialized() method, where you place your initialization code)