Question

New to Tomcat and running Tomcat 7 in an Eclipse environment.

I followed a tutorial for creating a ServletContextListener class. My question is, simply, how do I get this loaded and running in Tomcat? Can I use annotations? Do I need to edit an xml file?

Answer 1

Javadoc to the rescue:

In order to receive these notification events, the implementation
class must be either declared in the deployment descriptor of the web
application, annotated with WebListener, or registered via one of the
addListener methods defined on ServletContext.