spring mvc servlet initialization

Question

I am new to spring MVC. I am looking for a place in my spring mvc applicationwhere I can initialize all sorts of things in the application. usually I did that in the init()

Answer 1

Use a ServletContextListener and define it in web.xml:

    com.company.YourListenerClass

(you make a class which implements ServletContextListener and implement the contextInitialized() method, where you place your initialization code)