/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package javax.servlet; import java.util.EventListener; /** * Implementations of this interface receive notifications about * changes to the servlet context of the web application they are * part of. * To receive notification events, the implementation class * must be configured in the deployment descriptor for the web * application. * @see ServletContextEvent * @since v 2.3 */ public interface ServletContextListener extends EventListener { /** ** Notification that the web application initialization ** process is starting. ** All ServletContextListeners are notified of context ** initialization before any filter or servlet in the web ** application is initialized. */ public void contextInitialized ( ServletContextEvent sce ); /** ** Notification that the servlet context is about to be shut down. ** All servlets and filters have been destroy()ed before any ** ServletContextListeners are notified of context ** destruction. */ public void contextDestroyed ( ServletContextEvent sce ); }