Create Application Lifecycle Listener using Eclipse

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Select listener type

package testEAR;

import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;

/**
 * Application Lifecycle Listener implementation class TestApplicationLifecycleListener
 *
 */
public class TestApplicationLifecycleListener implements ServletContextListener {

    /**
     * Default constructor. 
     */
    public TestApplicationLifecycleListener() {
        System.out.println("TestApplicationLifecycleListener constructor");
    }

    /**
     * @see ServletContextListener#contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent)
     */
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
        System.out.println("TestApplicationLifecycleListener initialize event" + arg0);
    }

    /**
     * @see ServletContextListener#contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent)
     */
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
        System.out.println("TestApplicationLifecycleListener destroy event" + arg0);
    }
    
}

web.xml descriptor

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>testDynamicWeb</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <servlet>
    <description></description>
    <display-name>TestServlet</display-name>
    <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>testEAR.TestServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/sayHello</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>testEAR.TestApplicationLifecycleListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
</web-app>

TestApplicationLifecycleListener constructor
TestApplicationLifecycleListener initialize eventjavax.servlet.ServletContextEvent[source=weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext@194737d 
- appName: 'testEAR', name: 'testDynamicWeb', context-path: '/testDynamicWeb', spec-version: '2.5']
...
TestApplicationLifecycleListener destroy eventjavax.servlet.ServletContextEvent[source=weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext@194737d
- appName: 'testEAR', name: 'testDynamicWeb', context-path: '/testDynamicWeb', spec-version: '2.5']