Initializing a Session or Message Driven Bean on Deployment

[mgruebsch]

This is a newbie question:

Our requirement is to configure session and/or message driven beans after deployment and before first activation by a client.

I was told that this is possible using an web application with an initialization servlet. However, this seems not appropriated to us. Is there any other way to do the job?

Please point me to the appropriate documentation.

Thank's a lot
Michael

[mlybarger]

would ejbCreate work for your needs? it's called after deployment and before execution of any "business" methods.

[mgruebsch]

That is a good idea!

However, suppose the application will be deployed at time T1 and the first call the the EJB is a time T2. When is ejbCreate called: at T1 or T2?

Michael