Hi Steve,

I don't have a complete answer, but....

The behavior is defined in Jetty.  It looks like
ServletHolder.setInitOrder(0) is the programmatic way of forcing a servlet
to initialize during startup.

The XML you see below....

    <New id="context"
class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler">
        <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
        <Call name="addServlet">
            <Arg>com.peoplepattern.streams.execution.api.RootResources</Arg>
            <Arg>/*</Arg>
        </Call>
        <Set name="sessionHandler">
            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler" />
        </Set>
    </New>

...is equivalent to calling...
servletContextHandler.addServlet("
com.peoplepattern.streams.execution.api.RootResources", "/*");

There is a 2nd method on ServletContextHandler that allows you to pass in a
ServletHolder...
addServlet(ServletHolder servlet, java.lang.String pathSpec)

So just taking a stab at it, maybe something like this would work?  (I'm no
expert on the jetty.xml files, so I have no idea if this is valid
syntax)....

    <New id="context"
class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler">
        <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
        <Call name="addServlet">
            <Arg>
                <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder">
                <Set name="servlet">
com.peoplepattern.streams.execution.api.RootResources</Set>
                <Call name="setInitOrder">
                    <Arg>0</Arg>
                </Call>
            <Arg>/*</Arg>
        </Call>
        <Set name="sessionHandler">
            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler" />
        </Set>
    </New>

</Arg>




On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Steve Blackmon <sblackmon@apache.org>
wrote:

> I’m trying to configure Juneau to ensure that initialization of my
> resources occurs as the server comes up.
>
> I’m using @RestHook(INIT) and @RestHook(POST_INIT_CHILD_FIRST) to
> annotate methods which instantiate helper classes, and confirm that
> everything is healthy, respectively.
>
> I’m finding however that those methods are not called until the first
> request comes in.
>
> My RootResources class extends ResourceGroup and has RestHook annotated
> methods.  It also defines ~10 sub-resources which have them as well.
>
> I’ve attached my microservice.cfg and jetty.xml files.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Steve
>
>
>