I'm trying to learn annotations. I currently have a webapp that runs an init() when the app is started in Tomcat.
The following code works...
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0"> <servlet> <servlet-name>MainServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.company.Main</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> </web-app> Main.java:
import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet; //@WebServlet(name="MainServlet", value="/main.jsp", loadOnStartup=1) public class Main extends GenericServlet { public Main() { } @Override public void init() { System.out.println("Hello!"); } @Override public void destroy() { System.out.println("Bye!"); } @Override public void service(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException { } } However, when I uncomment the @WebServlet annotation and comment out the servlet entry in web.xml, the init method doesn't run.
Am I missing something obvious?
In case this will help, this is my pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>...</groupId> <artifactId>...</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>Name</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId> <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId> <version>3.6.6.Final</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId> <version>3.5.6-Final</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax</groupId> <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId> <version>6.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>