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