I've used a servlet context listener before and it works pretty well. You just have a write a small Java class to receive the event when the app is started, then add it to web.xml.
I don't think there's much good official documentation, but this blog post outlines it pretty simply: http://www.mkyong.com/servlet/what-is-listener-servletcontextlistener-example/ -Al On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best thing in Solr to hook into that would allow me to > start (and keep running) a custom piece of code when Solr starts? Say > I want to have something that pulls data from an external queue from > within Solr and indexes it into Solr and I want it start and stop > together with the Solr process. Is there any place in Solr where one > could do that? > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Solr & ElasticSearch Support > http://sematext.com/
