ServletContextListener not being invoked

Question

I creating a Java EE 7 project using Eclipse Maven plugin. My problem is when I run the application the class that implements SerlvetContextListener does not get invoked. What is causing this problem?

@WebListener
public class ApplicationContextListener implements ServletContextListener{

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce)
    {
        Request request = new HttpRequest(sce);
        new Thread (request).start();
        HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) 
    {

    }

}

web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
         http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
         version="3.1">
    <listener>com.kyrogaming.AppServletContextListener</listener>
    <!-- Jersey Mapping -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
            <param-value>com.kyrogaming.webservices</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/service/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <!-- end Jersey Mapping -->

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Answer 1

In web.xml you also need to specify the <listener-class>.

    <listener>
        <listener-class>
                 com.kyrogaming.AppServletContextListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>