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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package javax.servlet;
+
+import java.util.EventListener;
+
+/**
+ * Implementations of this interface receive notifications about changes to the
+ * servlet context of the web application they are part of. To receive
+ * notification events, the implementation class must be configured in the
+ * deployment descriptor for the web application.
+ *
+ * @see ServletContextEvent
+ * @since v 2.3
+ */
+
+public interface ServletContextListener extends EventListener {
+
+ /**
+ ** Notification that the web application initialization process is starting.
+ * All ServletContextListeners are notified of context initialization before
+ * any filter or servlet in the web application is initialized.
+ */
+ public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce);
+
+ /**
+ ** Notification that the servlet context is about to be shut down. All
+ * servlets and filters have been destroy()ed before any
+ * ServletContextListeners are notified of context destruction.
+ */
+ public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce);
+}