Is there a means of executing code during the startup of Apache Tomcat 6.x to perform initialization routines, etc.?

Question

I want to initialize a global instance of a class before my Tomcat server completes startup and begins to offer my servlets. If this service somehow fails initialization, I

Answer 1

One thing you can do portably is to implement a servlet that initializes everything you need in its init() method (and maybe call System.exit() if it fails, i do not know if you have permission to do this in Tomcat). Then you would load it using in your web.xml to specify initialization order.