Chapter 6. The Application Events Framework
Topics in This Chapter
- Understanding the general event-handling strategy
- Monitoring servlet context initialization and shutdown
- Setting application-wide values
- Detecting changes in attributes of the servlet context
- Packaging listeners in JSP tag libraries
- Recognizing creation and destruction of HTTP sessions
- Analyzing overall session usage
- Watching for changes in session attributes
- Tracking purchases at an e-commerce site
- Identifying request creation and destruction
- Tracking server request load
- Monitoring request attribute addition and change
- Using multiple cooperating listeners
Developers have many tools at their disposal for handling the life cycle of individual servlets or JSP pages. The servlet ...