How to configure a startup class in Tomcat 5.5.x or 6 for a web application

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In this tutorial you will learn how to configure a startup class for a web application in Tomcat 5.5.x or Tomcat 6.

Step 1:Let us assume Tomcat is installed in C:\tomcat. Let us assume you want to define a startup class for a web application named reminder. Navigate to C:\tomcat\webapps\reminder\WEB-INF and open the file web.xml. Configure the startup class AppStartUpListener under the package com.thea.startup as in the screen shot below.


Step 2: The startup class AppStartUpListener should follow certain rules like implementing javax.servlet.ServletContextListener. The Java source of the AppStartUpListener is provided in the below screen shot.