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Subject: Re: servletcontext listener vs servlet with high priority on loading
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:06:12 -0700
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On 8/11/2011 4:18 AM, a wrote:
> I cannot use this class because it has not been loaded when the
> servlet context event is sent.


I'd have to go check my JEE stuff again but I'd say in general the 
context listener is superior.  Loading order has to be manually 
maintained.  Context listeners fire automatically.


>
> I used to use a class with static logger to standardize the format of the
> log.

For this particular application, there are already ways to initialize 
your logger (both the standard SE one and log4j).  Why are you not using 
the standard configuration files?