Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-07 Thread Remy Maucherat
Roytman, Alex wrote: Rémy, I do not think that adding a Context listener will do me any good. I need to plug in my own ContextConfig. I know I can plug in my own ContextConfig but I would like to extend tomcat's one with minimum of changes or I will be running risk of being incompatible with next

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-07 Thread Roytman, Alex
Remy, I am aware of this property on Host and I actually use it - works great I am able to supply my own context configurator. What I would like to do is avoid rewriting significant parts of Tomcat's ContextConfig class to implement my encryption/decryption functionality. I would like to only

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Mark Thomas
Alex, I would vote '-1' for any such addition Tomcat. Let me explain why by way of a simple example. Let us assume that Tomcat requires a plain text user name and password to connect to a database. First of all, consider the security risks if the information is stored in an unencrypted file

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Durfee, Bernard
Durfee -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:25 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Alex, I would vote '-1' for any such addition Tomcat. Let me explain why by way

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Roytman, Alex
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:25 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Alex, I would vote '-1' for any such addition Tomcat. Let me explain why by way of a simple example

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Remy Maucherat
Roytman, Alex wrote: Dear Tomcat developers, I would like to implement context config file encryption. It is a pretty useful feature since passwords to various resources are stored in those files Unfortunately the way how context config files are read is hard coded (InputSource for Digester is

Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Mark Thomas
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:25 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files Alex, I would vote '-1' for any such addition Tomcat. Let me explain why by way of a simple

RE: Pluggable mechanism for loading context config files

2005-01-06 Thread Roytman, Alex
Rémy, I do not think that adding a Context listener will do me any good. I need to plug in my own ContextConfig. I know I can plug in my own ContextConfig but I would like to extend tomcat's one with minimum of changes or I will be running risk of being incompatible with next version of