WebApplicationInitializer

ServletContainInitalizer是Java EE 6中Servlet 3.0的新增接口；它的onStartup方法是一个web应用中我们的代码可以控制到的最早时间点。

它不需要通过web.xml部署描述符来定义，需要在/META-INF/services/javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer中列出具体的实现，Servlet容器在启动时会自动扫描加载它们并调用onStartUp方法。但是文件不能放在WAR文件的/META-INF/services中，而是需要放在JAR文件的/META-INF/services中，这样就很不方便。如果你使用spring的话，spring Framework提供了一个桥接口，在Spring中SpringServletContainerInitializer类实现了ServletContainerInitializer接口，Spring的JAR中列出了SpringServletContainerInitializer，如下。在SpringServletContainerInitializer中会扫描所有WebApplicationInitializer的实现，调用它们的onStartUp方法

如图，位于sping-web.jar/META-INF/services中

SpringServletContainerInitializer源码如下

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package org.springframework.web;

import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ServiceLoader;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.HandlesTypes;

import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationAwareOrderComparator;

/**
 * Servlet 3.0 {@link ServletContainerInitializer} designed to support code-based
 * configuration of the servlet container using Spring's {@link WebApplicationInitializer}
 * SPI as opposed to (or possibly in combination with) the traditional
 * {@code web.xml}-based approach.
 *
 * <h2>Mechanism of Operation</h2>
 * This class will be loaded and instantiated and have its {@link #onStartup}
 * method invoked by any Servlet 3.0-compliant container during container startup assuming
 * that the {@code spring-web} module JAR is present on the classpath. This occurs through
 * the JAR Services API {@link ServiceLoader#load(Class)} method detecting the
 * {@code spring-web} module's {@code META-INF/services/javax.servlet.ServletContainerInitializer}
 * service provider configuration file. See the
 * <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider">
 * JAR Services API documentation</a> as well as section <em>8.2.4</em> of the Servlet 3.0
 * Final Draft specification for complete details.
 *
 * <h3>In combination with {@code web.xml}</h3>
 * A web application can choose to limit the amount of classpath scanning the Servlet
 * container does at startup either through the {@code metadata-complete} attribute in
 * {@code web.xml}, which controls scanning for Servlet annotations or through an
 * {@code <absolute-ordering>} element also in {@code web.xml}, which controls which
 * web fragments (i.e. jars) are allowed to perform a {@code ServletContainerInitializer}
 * scan. When using this feature, the {@link SpringServletContainerInitializer}
 * can be enabled by adding "spring_web" to the list of named web fragments in
 * {@code web.xml} as follows:
 *
 * <pre class="code">
 * {@code
 * <absolute-ordering>
 *   <name>some_web_fragment</name>
 *   <name>spring_web</name>
 * </absolute-ordering>
 * }</pre>
 *
 * <h2>Relationship to Spring's {@code WebApplicationInitializer}</h2>
 * Spring's {@code WebApplicationInitializer} SPI consists of just one method:
 * {@link WebApplicationInitializer#onStartup(ServletContext)}. The signature is intentionally
 * quite similar to {@link ServletContainerInitializer#onStartup(Set, ServletContext)}:
 * simply put, {@code SpringServletContainerInitializer} is responsible for instantiating
 * and delegating the {@code ServletContext} to any user-defined
 * {@code WebApplicationInitializer} implementations. It is then the responsibility of
 * each {@code WebApplicationInitializer} to do the actual work of initializing the
 * {@code ServletContext}. The exact process of delegation is described in detail in the
 * {@link #onStartup onStartup} documentation below.
 *
 * <h2>General Notes</h2>
 * In general, this class should be viewed as <em>supporting infrastructure</em> for
 * the more important and user-facing {@code WebApplicationInitializer} SPI. Taking
 * advantage of this container initializer is also completely <em>optional</em>: while
 * it is true that this initializer will be loaded and invoked under all Servlet 3.0+
 * runtimes, it remains the user's choice whether to make any
 * {@code WebApplicationInitializer} implementations available on the classpath. If no
 * {@code WebApplicationInitializer} types are detected, this container initializer will
 * have no effect.
 *
 * <p>Note that use of this container initializer and of {@code WebApplicationInitializer}
 * is not in any way "tied" to Spring MVC other than the fact that the types are shipped
 * in the {@code spring-web} module JAR. Rather, they can be considered general-purpose
 * in their ability to facilitate convenient code-based configuration of the
 * {@code ServletContext}. In other words, any servlet, listener, or filter may be
 * registered within a {@code WebApplicationInitializer}, not just Spring MVC-specific
 * components.
 *
 * <p>This class is neither designed for extension nor intended to be extended.
 * It should be considered an internal type, with {@code WebApplicationInitializer}
 * being the public-facing SPI.
 *
 * <h2>See Also</h2>
 * See {@link WebApplicationInitializer} Javadoc for examples and detailed usage
 * recommendations.<p>
 *
 * @author Chris Beams
 * @author Juergen Hoeller
 * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
 * @since 3.1
 * @see #onStartup(Set, ServletContext)
 * @see WebApplicationInitializer
 */
@HandlesTypes(WebApplicationInitializer.class)
public class SpringServletContainerInitializer implements ServletContainerInitializer {

	/**
	 * Delegate the {@code ServletContext} to any {@link WebApplicationInitializer}
	 * implementations present on the application classpath.
	 *
	 * <p>Because this class declares @{@code HandlesTypes(WebApplicationInitializer.class)},
	 * Servlet 3.0+ containers will automatically scan the classpath for implementations
	 * of Spring's {@code WebApplicationInitializer} interface and provide the set of all
	 * such types to the {@code webAppInitializerClasses} parameter of this method.
	 *
	 * <p>If no {@code WebApplicationInitializer} implementations are found on the
	 * classpath, this method is effectively a no-op. An INFO-level log message will be
	 * issued notifying the user that the {@code ServletContainerInitializer} has indeed
	 * been invoked but that no {@code WebApplicationInitializer} implementations were
	 * found.
	 *
	 * <p>Assuming that one or more {@code WebApplicationInitializer} types are detected,
	 * they will be instantiated (and <em>sorted</em> if the @{@link
	 * org.springframework.core.annotation.Order @Order} annotation is present or
	 * the {@link org.springframework.core.Ordered Ordered} interface has been
	 * implemented). Then the {@link WebApplicationInitializer#onStartup(ServletContext)}
	 * method will be invoked on each instance, delegating the {@code ServletContext} such
	 * that each instance may register and configure servlets such as Spring's
	 * {@code DispatcherServlet}, listeners such as Spring's {@code ContextLoaderListener},
	 * or any other Servlet API componentry such as filters.
	 *
	 * @param webAppInitializerClasses all implementations of
	 * {@link WebApplicationInitializer} found on the application classpath
	 * @param servletContext the servlet context to be initialized
	 * @see WebApplicationInitializer#onStartup(ServletContext)
	 * @see AnnotationAwareOrderComparator
	 */
	@Override
	public void onStartup(Set<Class<?>> webAppInitializerClasses, ServletContext servletContext)
			throws ServletException {

		List<WebApplicationInitializer> initializers = new LinkedList<WebApplicationInitializer>();

		if (webAppInitializerClasses != null) {
			for (Class<?> waiClass : webAppInitializerClasses) {
				// Be defensive: Some servlet containers provide us with invalid classes,
				// no matter what @HandlesTypes says...
				if (!waiClass.isInterface() && !Modifier.isAbstract(waiClass.getModifiers()) &&
						WebApplicationInitializer.class.isAssignableFrom(waiClass)) {
					try {
						initializers.add((WebApplicationInitializer) waiClass.newInstance());
					}
					catch (Throwable ex) {
						throw new ServletException("Failed to instantiate WebApplicationInitializer class", ex);
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (initializers.isEmpty()) {
			servletContext.log("No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath");
			return;
		}

		AnnotationAwareOrderComparator.sort(initializers);
		servletContext.log("Spring WebApplicationInitializers detected on classpath: " + initializers);

		for (WebApplicationInitializer initializer : initializers) {
			initializer.onStartup(servletContext);
		}
	}

}