Re: Tomcat login logout hook ?

Dongsheng Song wrote: Hello, Can I hook a function after user login before user logout ? I assume that logout usually goes hand in hand with a session invalidation, then Servlet 2.4. spec is your friend: SRV.10.2.1 Event Types and Listener Interfaces javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener

Re: how to replace j_security_check

Marten Lehmann wrote: Hello, So far, this is not a problem. Looking up users through jdbc isn't a problem as well. But how can I inform the container about a successful login, so that calls to request.getRemoteUser() and request.isUserInRole(manager) will behave as if I logged in through

Re: Is Tomcat is an application server ?

There is no meaning in saying that one can plug in required services to Tomcat. My question is by design is it an application server ?. My opinion is that Tomcat in the shipped form is not an application server. At the minimum it should provide transaction and persistence services, method

Re: ssl traffic between apache and tomcat via mod_jk

Liz Donaldson wrote: Hi, I have a apache https enabled webserver and tomcat server an and am using the mod_jk connection module. From all the documentation I have read, it indicates that apache handles all the SSL negotiations and that the traffic between apache and tomcat is clear text.

Re: [Tomcat] Web Traffic Analisys Tool

Omar Adobati wrote: Good Morning all, I'm looking for a free and good web traffic analyzer to use with tomcat 5.x but searching on the net I can't find anything good. Does anyone know a good tool? (if it exists) Thanks in advice What about analog, webalizer or awstats?

Re: Pass parameter to the JVM at startup

Looking back I was starting Tomcat from inside Eclipse with the Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin which apparently doesn't use the tomcat startup scripts, i.e., it bypasses startup.sh so it never sees -server. When I started tomcat manually via the cli with startup.sh with the JAVA_OPTS in catalina.sh it

Re: Tomcat 5 slow, it's in production, please help!

Oto Bossert wrote: Yoo, Yes switch to jk2 is faster! But unsupported! Development of mod_jk1.x is going on, but not jk2. I wouldn't advise anyone to select something uncontinued. I set the session timeout time to 5 minutes, but in the session view of tomcat manager, I see message 30 - 40

Re: Pass parameter to the JVM at startup

Michael Echerer wrote: Shouldn't it have the -server in there if it is running in server mode? How can I tell that the JVM is actually running in server mode? well, not sure if you can. I'd try java.lang.System.getProperties() or something... Yupp... works... Just run my junitreport via

Re: Common vs. Shared

Ron Heeb wrote: my understanding comes from this book i got: 'common is responsible for classes that are used by Tomcat and publicly available to all Web apps'. shared is like common, except that 'developers can place their own classes and JAR files into the shared class loader domain'.

Re: Pass parameter to the JVM at startup

Acácio Furtado Costa wrote: Hi ALL, Does anyone know how to pass one parameter by Tomcat 5.0.28 to the starts JVM? I need to pass the - server parameter to the JVM (SUN 1.4.2) but I don´t know where I put this to call JVM. Use the JAVA_OPTS variable in catalina.sh or .bat

Re: upgrading a servlet

Zohar Amir wrote: Hello, I'm using Tomcat 5.0.28 on Red Hat linux. What is the correct procedure to deploy a new version of the same servlet? Just build redeploy the webapp containing the new servlet, if you don't need the new and old version at the same time. servlet-mapping in your web.xml

Re: Loading JAR changes without redeploy.

Eduardo Lobo wrote: Hi, I have this problem: I need to make a web application that read some resources(xml files) from JAR files (located in the shared/lib folder), but I need to update constantly the JARs content, then I need that the web application always gets the last JAR files

Re: Pass parameter to the JVM at startup

Shouldn't it have the -server in there if it is running in server mode? How can I tell that the JVM is actually running in server mode? well, not sure if you can. I'd try java.lang.System.getProperties() or something... At least on a Solaris machine you could figure out whether you are

Re: upgrading a servlet

Alex Pure wrote: I need help with this problem please .. Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 - HTTP Status 404 - /servlet/utdHttpController type Status report message /servlet/utdHttpController description The requested resource (/servlet/utdHttpController) is not available. Either

Custom JNDI resource and Tomcat BeanFactory seem to always return the same object instance

Hi, I was testing the JNDI Resource configuration using a custom resource factory and/or the Tomcat BeanFactory following the tutorial here with Tomcat 5.0.28: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html For Generic Java Bean resources the documentation says: The

Re: RES: JVM' sperm size always increase after hot deploy to tomcat 5.0.28

Paulo Alvim wrote: Thank you all It's good to know that we're not alone...but since we used to have workable 'hot deploy' others pre-J2EE App Servers our customers will insist with that - maybe we'll have to reconsider other App Server as our main Open-Source production environment

Re: how to harden tomcat?

Hi, One thing to look out for would be the use of JNI i.e. native calls. I'm not sure if there is a way of preventing someone from packaging a .so in a WAR and then loading it in to the app via code to bypass the lack of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (on *nix). didn't try it myself, but I guess

Re: moving all classes to shared

Dale, Matt wrote: I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The number of users are irrelevant to the classes. You should only use shared/classes if the classes have to be shared across web apps. Although this is not usually advised as it is good practice to keep web apps self contained.

Re: What is it mean that Java code does not belong in well designed JSP pages?

provides. Some logic does belong in JSP. However, the logic that appears within pages should be limited to display logic. I've found that Struts and JSTL are a great combination to accomplish such separation. IMHO this is basically the essence of Java code does no belong in well designed JSP

Re: Session is too sticky

Hi! What you could do is to give Apache a hint where to direct a request to. E.g. you could not simply invalidate the session, but also redirect to your start page again with a little trick. Add a ;jsessionid= string to the URL. Assume your Tomcat JVM routes are called e.g. tomcatA, tomcatB,

Re: Oracle 9i client connection to 8i database

How come that you need an Oracle client installation at all when you just want to use the Oracle thin JDBC driver? IHMO the client installation is only required for OCI thick drivers... Brad Rhoads wrote: We have an (struts) app that talks to an Oracle 8i database. Our latest installation wants

Re: OutOfMemory Errors

Hi, another idea... try to increase the size of the perm heap with -XX:permSize and -XX:maxPermSize. (See the JVM and garbage collector tuning docus from Sun for more information and google for more). Also try to enable the garbage collector log to check what happens to the perm memory in case

XXX unknowon type 0 in catalina log of Tomcat 5.0.28

Hi, in our Tomcat 5.0.28 catalina log I've seen the following lines. (see below) The first part are GC logs, that's okay as it was set in the JVM_OPTS, but the XXX unknowon type 0 is quite strange. What's the reason for this. Does anyone know this kind of error message? I've just found out

RE: XXX unknowon type 0 in catalina log of Tomcat 5.0.28

: Michael Echerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XXX unknowon type 0 in catalina log of Tomcat 5.0.28 Hi, in our Tomcat 5.0.28 catalina log I've seen the following lines. (see below) The first part are GC logs, that's okay

Re: Mysql: Cannot create JDBC driver

javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null', cause: No suitable driver Typically this just means that the JNDI name could not be resolved. Thus no driver is available. Server.xml: (...) Context path=/bankApp1 docBase=bankApp1 debug=5

Why JNDI ResourceLink not resolved, if .war file name doesn't match context path in Tomcat 5.0.28 ?

Hi, we have an application that we deploy as .WAR file on Tomcat 5.0.28. It has a META-INF/context.xml with this content: Context path=/foo reloadable=false useNaming=true ResourceLink name=jdbc/myDB global=jdbc/myDB type=javax.sql.DataSource/ResourceLink /Context If our .war file is

Re: Doubts with tomcat

1) When I start tomcat with above server.xml , it creates 9 process with same output on shell. it is I configured tomcat to run with minSpareThreads=5 then why it start with 9 threads? You configured 5 connector threads that not necessarily match OS threads (or whatever you saw). Check with

Re: META-INF/context.xml not overwriting Catalina/localhost/webapp.xml after redeploy.

Steve Kirk wrote: Remy mentioned earlier today on another thread that the path is ignored in a context.xml file because it is redundant, but I _think_ he was talking about 5.5 rather than 5.0. I have deleted the post now but I think he said that the docBase is probably also ignored. search the

Re: Name jdbc is not bound in this Context

If you put the ResourceParams stuff in server.xml as GlobalResource, you must put e.g. this into your server.xml's context respectively your myapp.xml context descriptor. ResourceLink name=jdbc/myapp global=jdbc/myapp type=javax.sql.DataSource/ResourceLink Of course name and global can differ,

Re: Rename jsessionid

Built Tomcat from source and change the few java class files where jsessionid is in. What we once did: Patch the binary! :-) you can grep for jsessionid in the tomcat jars somewere in server/lib (don't ask me which, but 1 think in 2-3 jars there was 1 class file each) You may simple replace

Re: application deploys twice

Jignesh Patel wrote: Hi All, We are using tomcat5.0.19 and struts1.1. Whenever we deploys our application it deploys twice. We couldn't able to identify the reason, why this is happening. Can anybody give insight to us. We are not deploying war file as well as we are not deploying in server we

Re: Tomcat clustering

Srinivas Rao Ch wrote: I am getting problems in configuring my tomcat for clustering. Nodes are not recognizing each other. mcastAddr has the same IP for all the nodes. Can someone tell what this property is for. My tcpListenAddress is 127.0.0.1 for all the nodes but port is different. In my

Using a META-INF\context.xml doesn't work as expected with Manager app .war upload

Hi, I use Tomcat 5.0.19. I'm playing around with the Manager web application and want to deploy a .WAR file that contains a META-INF\context.xml deployment descriptor. Deploying the .WAR file using the upload feature works, and the context.xml that I put into the META-INF\ is copied (but

RE: Using a META-INF\context.xml doesn't work as expected with Manager app .war upload

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I don't think we support a nested docBase when using a WAR file, such as tests/whatever. The WAR itself is the docBase if packed, or the WAR's root directory if unpacked. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics -Original Message- From: Michael Echerer

Re: [tomcat] Re: Understanding tomcat web administration tool.

And when examining localhost_log.2004-08-01.txt I see these errors: 2004-08-01 04:20:52 StandardHost[localhost]: Error deploying application at context path null java.lang.IllegalStateException: Context path /admin is already in use 2004-08-01 04:20:52 HostConfig[localhost] Error deploying

Re: How to hide the JDBCRealm password from server.xml

QM wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:42:51PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote: : Does anybody know how to hide the JDBCRealm password from server.xml? 1/ This has been discussed before on the list. (aka, check the archives.) The quick answer is: protect you Tomcat's server.xml from being read by

Is the Tomcat5 documentation correct for this?

Hi, http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/context.html says: Pathname to a scratch directory to be provided by this Context for temporary read-write use by servlets within the associated web application. This directory will be made visible to servlets in the web application by

Re: Is the Tomcat5 documentation correct for this?

for multiple instances by setting a CATALINA_BASE directory, you should use $CATALINA_BASE instead of $CATALINA_HOME for each of these references. :) Michael Echerer wrote: Hi, http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/context.html says: Pathname to a scratch directory to be provided

Tomcat5 Log4j non-meaningful thread names in loadbalanced environment vs. Tomcat4

Hi all, i have been using Tomcat 4.x for quite a while and was using log4j for logging purposes with a log4j pattern like this: log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%-10r [%t] %d{ISO8601} %-5p %c %x - %m%n In Tomcat4.x with mod_jk1.x the thread names for [%t] I got looked like:

Re: question on tomcat's JSESSIONID

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 2 questions regarding tomcat: 1- I am wondering if it is possible to rename the JSESSIONID cookie to something else. I am interseted in renaming it host_port_JSESSIONID this way JSESSION ids generated by webservers on the same domain (domain.com) will not

Is crossContext conform to the Servlet API?

Hi, short question: Is the crossContext attibute for contexts (or better the mechanismn behind) part of the Servlet API or is it a Tomcat specific feature that you couldn't use on other servers. I just wondered if you would tie your application/setup to Tomcat when using a crosscontext webapp

Re: JK2: lb_factor

which tells more details on this, Please let me know. Regards, Bhaskar -Original Message- From: Michael Echerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:08 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: JK2: lb_factor I measured similar effects using The Grinder. Under maximum load

Re: JK2: lb_factor

was that a lower value means more requests (official JK2-documentation at jakarta.apache.org). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Michael Echerer TNG

Re: Using Tomcat's HTTP processor and SSL

Jim Kennedy wrote: I am considering using Tomcat alone as my HTTP server as well as my servlet container with SSL. I know a lot of people use Apache HTTP Server instead of Tomcat for this and Tomcat is just the servlet container only. Is there any reason why I should not use just Tomcat alone

Re: Stop Tomcat over non-SSL connection with Apache2/JK2

Gordon Ross wrote: The problem, is that I do *NOT* want the webapp available over the non-SSL connection. In the VirtualHost section in Apache 2 where I defined the SSL VirtualHost, I put a JkUriSet command, but the tomcat apps were still available over port 80 (non-SSL) - even though there was

Apache 2.0.49/mod_jk2.02 doesn't distribute load evenly to 2x Tomcat5.0.19 under high load.

Hello, I stumbled upon a serious issue with the load balancing of mod_jk2. Currently I'm doing load testing with The Grinder. My config is: 1x Apache 2.0.49 compiled with openssl (rest is default, prefork, etc.). mod_jk2.0.2 and 2x Tomcat 5.0.19 on Solaris 2.8. With The Grinder I put a high load

RE: Virtual Hosting with Tomcat

address with your info. However the other issue exists. I have tried different variations of the context path but none seem to work. Still hammering at it. Not yet struggled with virtual hosts, but... Do you have a ROOT.WAR or ROOT directory in your webapps dir? Maybe this could

RE: Session timeout

I guess you should have a look into javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener and .HttpSessionEvent to monitor if a session is created or destroyed. -Original Message- From: Lindomar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 14:00 To: Tomcat Users List Subject:

Re: Retrieve User - Realm

More specifically, he may be looking for: request.getUserPrincipal().getName(), which returns the actual user name. I believe that request.getRemoteUser() only returns the username if the user is authenticated using BASIC authentication. Actually not true, although I don't say I

Hot (re-)deployment with .war files

Hello, I use Tomcat 4.1.16 on Windows with Eclipse 2.0 and the Lomboz 0.95 J2EE plugin for Tomcat integration. I have a problem with auto deployment. When I start Tomcat from the Eclipse I can deploy the webapp. It will be packed into a war file and copied into Tomcat's webapps directory, will

RE: TC/Apache session tracking

I'm not sure if that problem is connected to mod_jk2. There are four ways for session tracking. SSL, hidden form fields, url rewriting or cookies. Tomcat can use certain methods mostly transparent if necessary e.g. if cookies are disabled then url rewriting is in use. I guess your session info

RE: please help me

To use servlets you will need a servlet container/webserver like Tomcat. To compile servlets some .jar files from Tomcat are necessary. You have to add this to your classpath or use ant scripts whatever. In your case I guess that servlet.jar from /tomcat/common/lib/ is missing in your