Re: Authenticating a drop-in web-app
Thanks Nicholas, I wanted to make sure before going ahead with our own implementation. We currently ship a custom tomcat but customers are demanding the ability to deploy our product in their existing corporate tomcat servers. Thanks again, --Russ On 4/2/07, Nicholas Sushkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ, Updating your tomcat installation with custom components is most likely out of scope of Tomcat's application deployment. Perhaps you can offer your customers a customized tomcat installation kit with your JAAS jar preinstalled. On Monday 02 April 2007 13:19, Russ Sherk wrote: Hi, I was looking into using Tomcat's (5.x) authentication for our web-app. The web-app will be deployed in a single WAR file so the customers can drop it into their existing Tomcat installation. The authentication needs to be done via our custom JAAS implementation which is packaged in a jar. The authentication scheme is used by all of our standalone and web-apps. Now, I have go to the point where the app is configured to use JAAS but it requires that our JAAS implementation jar to be placed in $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed. Which does not fit into our 'drop-in' deployment plan. Is it possible to either configure the WAR deployment to add the jar to the $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed directory without user/admin intervention? Regards, --Russ -- Nicholas Sushkin, Senior Software Engineer http://www.openfinance.com http://www.wealthinformationexchange.com - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Authenticating a drop-in web-app
Hi, I was looking into using Tomcat's (5.x) authentication for our web-app. The web-app will be deployed in a single WAR file so the customers can drop it into their existing Tomcat installation. The authentication needs to be done via our custom JAAS implementation which is packaged in a jar. The authentication scheme is used by all of our standalone and web-apps. Now, I have go to the point where the app is configured to use JAAS but it requires that our JAAS implementation jar to be placed in $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed. Which does not fit into our 'drop-in' deployment plan. Is it possible to either configure the WAR deployment to add the jar to the $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed directory without user/admin intervention? Regards, --Russ - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authenticating a drop-in web-app
Russ, Updating your tomcat installation with custom components is most likely out of scope of Tomcat's application deployment. Perhaps you can offer your customers a customized tomcat installation kit with your JAAS jar preinstalled. On Monday 02 April 2007 13:19, Russ Sherk wrote: Hi, I was looking into using Tomcat's (5.x) authentication for our web-app. The web-app will be deployed in a single WAR file so the customers can drop it into their existing Tomcat installation. The authentication needs to be done via our custom JAAS implementation which is packaged in a jar. The authentication scheme is used by all of our standalone and web-apps. Now, I have go to the point where the app is configured to use JAAS but it requires that our JAAS implementation jar to be placed in $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed. Which does not fit into our 'drop-in' deployment plan. Is it possible to either configure the WAR deployment to add the jar to the $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed directory without user/admin intervention? Regards, --Russ -- Nicholas Sushkin, Senior Software Engineer http://www.openfinance.com http://www.wealthinformationexchange.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
