Overriding init of Faces Servlet

Experts,

I need to load application related data in Servlet Context on server startup. Right now I am using a separate sevlet to do this. Is there any other way to achieve this? Like, Some filter or listener which is called only on server startup of JSF project. Or, is it 憃k?to have a dummy servlet in a JSF project? (something against the sprit of JSF? )

[369 byte] By [eegaia] at [2007-11-27 9:29:55]