Tomcat Java Servlet - Initialize Class on Application Startup

Question

I have a class that takes a bit of time to start up (makes some JNI calls and what not), so it is not feasable to initialize this class everytime a page loads. Is it possibl

Answer 1

You can do the initialize of the class inside the servlet's init method.
init() method is invoked when the servlet instance is loaded so it is a good place for expensive operations.