There is one context per "web application" per Java Virtual Machine. (A "web application" is a collection of servlets and content installed under a specific subset of the server's URL namespace such as /catalog and possibly installed via a .war file.)
In the case of a web application marked "distributed" in its deployment descriptor, there will be one context instance for each virtual machine. In this situation, the context cannot be used as a location to share global information (because the information won't be truly global). Use an external resource like a database instead.
The ServletContext object is contained within the ServletConfig object, which the Web server provides the servlet when the servlet is initialized.
| static String | ORDERED_LIBS
The name of the ServletContext attribute whose value
(of type java.util.List<java.lang.String>) contains
the list of names of JAR files in WEB-INF/lib ordered by
their web fragment names (with possible exclusions if
<absolute-ordering> without any
<others/> is being used), or null if no
absolute or relative ordering has been specified
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| static String | TEMPDIR
The name of the ServletContext attribute which stores
the private temporary directory (of type java.io.File)
provided by the servlet container for the ServletContext
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| FilterRegistration.Dynamic | addFilter(String filterName,
Class<? extends Filter> filterClass)
Adds the filter with the given name and class type to this servlet
context.
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| FilterRegistration.Dynamic | addFilter(String filterName,
Filter filter)
Registers the given filter instance with this ServletContext
under the given filterName.
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| FilterRegistration.Dynamic | addFilter(String filterName,
String className)
Adds the filter with the given name and class name to this servlet
context.
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| ServletRegistration.Dynamic | addJspFile(String servletName,
String jspFile)
Adds the servlet with the given jsp file to this servlet context.
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| void | addListener(Class<? extends EventListener> listenerClass)
Adds a listener of the given class type to this ServletContext.
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| void | addListener(String className)
Adds the listener with the given class name to this ServletContext.
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| <T extends EventListener> void |
addListener(T t)
Adds the given listener to this ServletContext.
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| ServletRegistration.Dynamic | addServlet(String servletName,
Class<? extends Servlet> servletClass)
Adds the servlet with the given name and class type to this servlet
context.
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| ServletRegistration.Dynamic | addServlet(String servletName,
Servlet servlet)
Registers the given servlet instance with this ServletContext
under the given servletName.
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| ServletRegistration.Dynamic | addServlet(String servletName,
String className)
Adds the servlet with the given name and class name to this servlet
context.
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| <T extends Filter> T |
createFilter(Class<T> clazz)
Instantiates the given Filter class.
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| <T extends EventListener> T |
createListener(Class<T> clazz)
Instantiates the given EventListener class.
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| <T extends Servlet> T |
createServlet(Class<T> clazz)
Instantiates the given Servlet class.
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| void | declareRoles(String... roleNames)
Declares role names that are tested using isUserInRole.
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| Object | getAttribute(String name)
Returns the servlet container attribute with the given name, or
null if there is no attribute by that name.
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| Enumeration<String> | getAttributeNames()
Returns an Enumeration containing the
attribute names available within this ServletContext.
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| ClassLoader | getClassLoader()
Gets the class loader of the web application represented by this
ServletContext.
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| ServletContext | getContext(String uripath)
Returns a ServletContext object that
corresponds to a specified URL on the server.
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| String | getContextPath()
Returns the context path of the web application.
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| Set<SessionTrackingMode> | getDefaultSessionTrackingModes()
Gets the session tracking modes that are supported by default for this
ServletContext.
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| int | getEffectiveMajorVersion()
Gets the major version of the Servlet specification that the
application represented by this ServletContext is based on.
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| int | getEffectiveMinorVersion()
Gets the minor version of the Servlet specification that the
application represented by this ServletContext is based on.
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| Set<SessionTrackingMode> | getEffectiveSessionTrackingModes()
Gets the session tracking modes that are in effect for this
ServletContext.
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| FilterRegistration | getFilterRegistration(String filterName)
Gets the FilterRegistration corresponding to the filter with the
given filterName.
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| Map<String,? extends FilterRegistration> | getFilterRegistrations()
Gets a (possibly empty) Map of the FilterRegistration
objects (keyed by filter name) corresponding to all filters
registered with this ServletContext.
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| String | getInitParameter(String name)
Returns a String containing the value of the named
context-wide initialization parameter, or null if
the parameter does not exist.
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| Enumeration<String> | getInitParameterNames()
Returns the names of the context's initialization parameters as an
Enumeration of String objects, or an
empty Enumeration if the context has no initialization
parameters.
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| JspConfigDescriptor | getJspConfigDescriptor()
Gets the <jsp-config> related configuration
that was aggregated from the web.xml and
web-fragment.xml descriptor files of the web application
represented by this ServletContext.
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| int | getMajorVersion()
Returns the major version of the Servlet API that this
servlet container supports.
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| String | getMimeType(String file)
Returns the MIME type of the specified file, or null if
the MIME type is not known.
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| int | getMinorVersion()
Returns the minor version of the Servlet API that this
servlet container supports.
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| RequestDispatcher | getNamedDispatcher(String name)
Returns a RequestDispatcher object that acts
as a wrapper for the named servlet.
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| String | getRealPath(String path)
Gets the real path corresponding to the given
virtual path.
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| String | getRequestCharacterEncoding()
Gets the request character encoding that are supported by default for
this ServletContext.
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| RequestDispatcher | getRequestDispatcher(String path)
Returns a RequestDispatcher object that acts
as a wrapper for the resource located at the given path.
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| URL | getResource(String path)
Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to the given path.
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| InputStream | getResourceAsStream(String path)
Returns the resource located at the named path as
an InputStream object.
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| Set<String> | getResourcePaths(String path)
Returns a directory-like listing of all the paths to resources
within the web application whose longest sub-path matches the
supplied path argument.
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| String | getResponseCharacterEncoding()
Gets the response character encoding that are supported by default for
this ServletContext.
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| String | getServerInfo()
Returns the name and version of the servlet container on which
the servlet is running.
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| Servlet | getServlet(String name)
Deprecated.
As of Java Servlet API 2.1, with no direct replacement.
This method was originally defined to retrieve a servlet from a ServletContext. In this version, this method always returns null and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. In lieu of this method, servlets can share information using the ServletContext class and can perform shared business logic by invoking methods on common non-servlet classes. |
| String | getServletContextName()
Returns the name of this web application corresponding to this
ServletContext as specified in the deployment descriptor for this
web application by the display-name element.
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| Enumeration<String> | getServletNames()
Deprecated.
As of Java Servlet API 2.1, with no replacement.
This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlet names known to this context. In this version, this method always returns an empty Enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. |
| ServletRegistration | getServletRegistration(String servletName)
Gets the ServletRegistration corresponding to the servlet with the
given servletName.
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| Map<String,? extends ServletRegistration> | getServletRegistrations()
Gets a (possibly empty) Map of the ServletRegistration
objects (keyed by servlet name) corresponding to all servlets
registered with this ServletContext.
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| Enumeration<Servlet> | getServlets()
Deprecated.
As of Java Servlet API 2.0, with no replacement.
This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlets known to this servlet context. In this version, this method always returns an empty enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. |
| SessionCookieConfig | getSessionCookieConfig()
Gets the SessionCookieConfig object through which various
properties of the session tracking cookies created on behalf of this
ServletContext may be configured.
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| int | getSessionTimeout()
Gets the session timeout in minutes that are supported by default for
this ServletContext.
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| String | getVirtualServerName()
Returns the configuration name of the logical host on which the
ServletContext is deployed.
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| void | log(Exception exception,
String msg)
Deprecated.
As of Java Servlet API 2.1, use
log(String message, Throwable throwable)
instead.
This method was originally defined to write an exception's stack trace and an explanatory error message to the servlet log file. |
| void | log(String msg)
Writes the specified message to a servlet log file, usually
an event log.
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| void | log(String message,
Throwable throwable)
Writes an explanatory message and a stack trace
for a given Throwable exception
to the servlet log file.
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| void | removeAttribute(String name)
Removes the attribute with the given name from
this ServletContext.
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| void | setAttribute(String name,
Object object)
Binds an object to a given attribute name in this ServletContext.
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| boolean | setInitParameter(String name,
String value)
Sets the context initialization parameter with the given name and
value on this ServletContext.
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| void | setRequestCharacterEncoding(String encoding)
Sets the request character encoding for this ServletContext.
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| void | setResponseCharacterEncoding(String encoding)
Sets the response character encoding for this ServletContext.
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| void | setSessionTimeout(int sessionTimeout)
Sets the session timeout in minutes for this ServletContext.
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| void | setSessionTrackingModes(Set<SessionTrackingMode> sessionTrackingModes)
Sets the session tracking modes that are to become effective for this
ServletContext.
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The context path is the portion of the request URI that is used to select the context of the request. The context path always comes first in a request URI. If this context is the "root" context rooted at the base of the Web server's URL name space, this path will be an empty string. Otherwise, if the context is not rooted at the root of the server's name space, the path starts with a / character but does not end with a / character.
It is possible that a servlet container may match a context by more than one context path. In such cases the HttpServletRequest.getContextPath() will return the actual context path used by the request and it may differ from the path returned by this method. The context path returned by this method should be considered as the prime or preferred context path of the application.
This method allows servlets to gain access to the context for various parts of the server, and as needed obtain RequestDispatcher objects from the context. The given path must be begin with /, is interpreted relative to the server's document root and is matched against the context roots of other web applications hosted on this container.
In a security conscious environment, the servlet container may return null for a given URL.
The value returned may be different from getMajorVersion(), which returns the major version of the Servlet specification supported by the Servlet container.
The value returned may be different from getMinorVersion(), which returns the minor version of the Servlet specification supported by the Servlet container.
Paths indicating subdirectory paths end with a /.
The returned paths are all relative to the root of the web application, or relative to the /META-INF/resources directory of a JAR file inside the web application's /WEB-INF/lib directory, and have a leading /.
The returned set is not backed by the ServletContext object, so changes in the returned set are not reflected in the ServletContext object, and vice-versa.
For example, for a web application containing: /welcome.html /catalog/index.html /catalog/products.html /catalog/offers/books.html /catalog/offers/music.html /customer/login.jsp /WEB-INF/web.xml /WEB-INF/classes/com.acme.OrderServlet.class /WEB-INF/lib/catalog.jar!/META-INF/resources/catalog/moreOffers/books.html getResourcePaths("/") would return {"/welcome.html", "/catalog/", "/customer/", "/WEB-INF/"}, and getResourcePaths("/catalog/") would return {"/catalog/index.html", "/catalog/products.html", "/catalog/offers/", "/catalog/moreOffers/"}.
The path must begin with a / and is interpreted as relative to the current context root, or relative to the /META-INF/resources directory of a JAR file inside the web application's /WEB-INF/lib directory. This method will first search the document root of the web application for the requested resource, before searching any of the JAR files inside /WEB-INF/lib. The order in which the JAR files inside /WEB-INF/lib are searched is undefined.
This method allows the servlet container to make a resource available to servlets from any source. Resources can be located on a local or remote file system, in a database, or in a .war file.
The servlet container must implement the URL handlers and URLConnection objects that are necessary to access the resource.
This method returns null if no resource is mapped to the pathname.
Some containers may allow writing to the URL returned by this method using the methods of the URL class.
The resource content is returned directly, so be aware that requesting a .jsp page returns the JSP source code. Use a RequestDispatcher instead to include results of an execution.
This method has a different purpose than java.lang.Class.getResource, which looks up resources based on a class loader. This method does not use class loaders.
The data in the InputStream can be of any type or length. The path must be specified according to the rules given in getResource. This method returns null if no resource exists at the specified path.
Meta-information such as content length and content type that is available via getResource method is lost when using this method.
The servlet container must implement the URL handlers and URLConnection objects necessary to access the resource.
This method is different from java.lang.Class.getResourceAsStream, which uses a class loader. This method allows servlet containers to make a resource available to a servlet from any location, without using a class loader.
The pathname must begin with a / and is interpreted as relative to the current context root. Use getContext to obtain a RequestDispatcher for resources in foreign contexts.
This method returns null if the ServletContext cannot return a RequestDispatcher.
Servlets (and JSP pages also) may be given names via server administration or via a web application deployment descriptor. A servlet instance can determine its name using ServletConfig.getServletName().
This method returns null if the ServletContext cannot return a RequestDispatcher for any reason.
This method was originally defined to retrieve a servlet from a ServletContext. In this version, this method always returns null and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API.
In lieu of this method, servlets can share information using the ServletContext class and can perform shared business logic by invoking methods on common non-servlet classes.
This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlets known to this servlet context. In this version, this method always returns an empty enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API.
This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlet names known to this context. In this version, this method always returns an empty Enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API.
This method was originally defined to write an exception's stack trace and an explanatory error message to the servlet log file.
For example, if path is equal to /index.html, this method will return the absolute file path on the server's filesystem to which a request of the form http://<host>:<port>/<contextPath>/index.html would be mapped, where <contextPath> corresponds to the context path of this ServletContext.
The real path returned will be in a form appropriate to the computer and operating system on which the servlet container is running, including the proper path separators.
Resources inside the /META-INF/resources directories of JAR files bundled in the application's /WEB-INF/lib directory must be considered only if the container has unpacked them from their containing JAR file, in which case the path to the unpacked location must be returned.
This method returns null if the servlet container is unable to translate the given virtual path to a real path.
The form of the returned string is servername/versionnumber. For example, the JavaServer Web Development Kit may return the string JavaServer Web Dev Kit/1.0.
The servlet container may return other optional information after the primary string in parentheses, for example, JavaServer Web Dev Kit/1.0 (JDK 1.1.6; Windows NT 4.0 x86).
This method can make available configuration information useful to an entire web application. For example, it can provide a webmaster's email address or the name of a system that holds critical data.
An attribute allows a servlet container to give the servlet additional information not already provided by this interface. See your server documentation for information about its attributes. A list of supported attributes can be retrieved using getAttributeNames.
The attribute is returned as a java.lang.Object or some subclass.
Attribute names should follow the same convention as package names. The Java Servlet API specification reserves names matching java.*, javax.*, and sun.*.
Use the getAttribute(java.lang.String) method with an attribute name to get the value of an attribute.
If listeners are configured on the ServletContext the container notifies them accordingly.
If a null value is passed, the effect is the same as calling removeAttribute().
Attribute names should follow the same convention as package names. The Java Servlet API specification reserves names matching java.*, javax.*, and sun.*.
If listeners are configured on the ServletContext the container notifies them accordingly.
The registered servlet may be further configured via the returned ServletRegistration object.
The specified className will be loaded using the classloader associated with the application represented by this ServletContext.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary ServletRegistration for a servlet with the given servletName, it will be completed (by assigning the given className to it) and returned.
This method introspects the class with the given className for the ServletSecurity, MultipartConfig, javax.annotation.security.RunAs, and javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles annotations. In addition, this method supports resource injection if the class with the given className represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The registered servlet may be further configured via the returned ServletRegistration object.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary ServletRegistration for a servlet with the given servletName, it will be completed (by assigning the class name of the given servlet instance to it) and returned.
The registered servlet may be further configured via the returned ServletRegistration object.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary ServletRegistration for a servlet with the given servletName, it will be completed (by assigning the name of the given servletClass to it) and returned.
This method introspects the given servletClass for the ServletSecurity, MultipartConfig, javax.annotation.security.RunAs, and javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles annotations. In addition, this method supports resource injection if the given servletClass represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The registered servlet may be further configured via the returned ServletRegistration object.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary ServletRegistration for a servlet with the given servletName, it will be completed (by assigning the given jspFile to it) and returned.
The returned Servlet instance may be further customized before it is registered with this ServletContext via a call to addServlet(String,Servlet).
The given Servlet class must define a zero argument constructor, which is used to instantiate it.
This method introspects the given clazz for the following annotations: ServletSecurity, MultipartConfig, javax.annotation.security.RunAs, and javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles. In addition, this method supports resource injection if the given clazz represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The returned Map includes the ServletRegistration objects corresponding to all declared and annotated servlets, as well as the ServletRegistration objects corresponding to all servlets that have been added via one of the addServlet and addJspFile methods.
If permitted, any changes to the returned Map must not affect this ServletContext.
The registered filter may be further configured via the returned FilterRegistration object.
The specified className will be loaded using the classloader associated with the application represented by this ServletContext.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary FilterRegistration for a filter with the given filterName, it will be completed (by assigning the given className to it) and returned.
This method supports resource injection if the class with the given className represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The registered filter may be further configured via the returned FilterRegistration object.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary FilterRegistration for a filter with the given filterName, it will be completed (by assigning the class name of the given filter instance to it) and returned.
The registered filter may be further configured via the returned FilterRegistration object.
If this ServletContext already contains a preliminary FilterRegistration for a filter with the given filterName, it will be completed (by assigning the name of the given filterClass to it) and returned.
This method supports resource injection if the given filterClass represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The returned Filter instance may be further customized before it is registered with this ServletContext via a call to addFilter(String,Filter).
The given Filter class must define a zero argument constructor, which is used to instantiate it.
This method supports resource injection if the given clazz represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The returned Map includes the FilterRegistration objects corresponding to all declared and annotated filters, as well as the FilterRegistration objects corresponding to all filters that have been added via one of the addFilter methods.
Any changes to the returned Map must not affect this ServletContext.
Repeated invocations of this method will return the same SessionCookieConfig instance.
The given sessionTrackingModes replaces any session tracking modes set by a previous invocation of this method on this ServletContext.
The returned set is not backed by the ServletContext object, so changes in the returned set are not reflected in the ServletContext object, and vice-versa.
The session tracking modes in effect are those provided to setSessionTrackingModes.
The returned set is not backed by the ServletContext object, so changes in the returned set are not reflected in the ServletContext object, and vice-versa.
The class with the given name will be loaded using the classloader associated with the application represented by this ServletContext, and must implement one or more of the following interfaces:
If this ServletContext was passed to ServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(java.util.Set<java.lang.Class<?>>, javax.servlet.ServletContext), then the class with the given name may also implement ServletContextListener, in addition to the interfaces listed above.
As part of this method call, the container must load the class with the specified class name to ensure that it implements one of the required interfaces.
If the class with the given name implements a listener interface whose invocation order corresponds to the declaration order (i.e., if it implements ServletRequestListener, ServletContextListener, or HttpSessionListener), then the new listener will be added to the end of the ordered list of listeners of that interface.
This method supports resource injection if the class with the given className represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The given listener must be an instance of one or more of the following interfaces:
If this ServletContext was passed to ServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(java.util.Set<java.lang.Class<?>>, javax.servlet.ServletContext), then the given listener may also be an instance of ServletContextListener, in addition to the interfaces listed above.
If the given listener is an instance of a listener interface whose invocation order corresponds to the declaration order (i.e., if it is an instance of ServletRequestListener, ServletContextListener, or HttpSessionListener), then the listener will be added to the end of the ordered list of listeners of that interface.
The given listenerClass must implement one or more of the following interfaces:
If this ServletContext was passed to ServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(java.util.Set<java.lang.Class<?>>, javax.servlet.ServletContext), then the given listenerClass may also implement ServletContextListener, in addition to the interfaces listed above.
If the given listenerClass implements a listener interface whose invocation order corresponds to the declaration order (i.e., if it implements ServletRequestListener, ServletContextListener, or HttpSessionListener), then the new listener will be added to the end of the ordered list of listeners of that interface.
This method supports resource injection if the given listenerClass represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
The specified EventListener class must implement at least one of the ServletContextListener, ServletContextAttributeListener, ServletRequestListener, ServletRequestAttributeListener, HttpSessionAttributeListener, HttpSessionIdListener, or HttpSessionListener interfaces.
The returned EventListener instance may be further customized before it is registered with this ServletContext via a call to addListener(EventListener).
The given EventListener class must define a zero argument constructor, which is used to instantiate it.
This method supports resource injection if the given clazz represents a Managed Bean. See the Java EE platform and JSR 299 specifications for additional details about Managed Beans and resource injection.
If a security manager exists, and the caller's class loader is not the same as, or an ancestor of the requested class loader, then the security manager's checkPermission method is called with a RuntimePermission("getClassLoader") permission to check whether access to the requested class loader should be granted.
Roles that are implicitly declared as a result of their use within the setServletSecurity or setRunAsRole methods of the ServletRegistration interface need not be declared.
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