Our requirement is to initialize resp. to configure our application just 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 it possible to use an MBean which is run by the deployment process? We want some sort of core MBean to:

read the configuration of the application from a remote database configure the application using other MBeans

Please point me to the appropriate documentation.

Are there other ways than JMX or a web apps?

Thank's a lot
Michael