the problem is not tomcat recognizing my class, it is tomcat recognizing one of its own classes called out from my web application.
i have tried various things to put catalina.jar in common/lib or shared/lib with no success. besides, this doesn't seem right anyway. but, when it is late and you get desparate, you'll try anything! ----- Original Message ----- From: "p niemandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: RE: custom JDBCRealm > Have you tried $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/YourWebApp/WEB-INF/classes ? > > On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 17:40, Carl Maib wrote: > > bill, > > i have tried placing my source in common/classes, common/lib, shared/lib and shared/classes with no luck. depending on where i put my class, it was either in a Jar as part of a package, or just a stand-alone class. > > > > i am really baffled here, it seems like one of those solutions should have worked. yet, i continue to get the NoClassDefFound error for the catalina class i am overriding (FormAuthenticator). > > > > i know i am a newbie to tomcat, so perhaps i am missing something simple. if anyone has had any luck overriding any of the catalina classes in their webapp and has had some success actually running it, please lend a hand! > > > > thanks! > > > > "Bill Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > "Carl Maib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > i am attempting the exact same thing, but have been advised it would be > > > > better to override the FormAuthenticator. this gives you direct access to > > > > the session. > > > > > > > > the solution seems perfect, however, i i can't seem to get past > > > > classNotFound exceptions. i am not familiar with how to link catalina > > > > classes and the Class Loader docs are not giving me the answer. > > > > > > > > i have configured server.xml to contain my custom valve, the class which > > > > overrides FormAuthenticator. i have placed this class in common/classes. i > > > > get class not found exceptions on FormAuthenticator bcz my webapp is not > > > > able to reference the necessary objects in catalina.jar. > > > > > > It needs to be in server/classes, so that it can see the Catalina classes. > > > > > > > > > > > please let me know if you get this solution to work. thanks! > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "awc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:41 PM > > > > Subject: Custom JDBCRealm > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I want to add more stuff to user session while user logs in. The only > > > > > way I see to do this is to write custom JDBCRealm class which extnds > > > > > org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm or implement > > > > > org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase class. > > > > > > > > > > This custom class will have more initializing parameters too. Any > > > > > thoughts on this from one who already did sort of thing?? > > > > > > > > > > I am going to use this one with securityFilere from > > > > > www.securityfilter.org. > > > > > > > > > > Thank you in advance for any replies. > > > > > > > > > > .anil > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > p niemandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
