How to find main method of dynamic web project in eclipse?

Question

I have created a dynamic web project in eclipse. Now I have a situation in which I need to start a thread while application gets started[Short of in main method]. Now I searched the whole project for the class containing the main method. But I didn't get it.

Like in web.xml

<welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list> 

Now I want to execute some code before index.jsp gets loaded.. Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

In general web applications are started from the application container and thus do not need to have a main method.

You may want to add a context listner so that you get notifyed about the start of the web application and where you can start your thread.

Here you can find an example.