I have Tomcat 5.0 set up on a Linux env running JDK 1.4.2. My Tomcat is
not customized in any fashion (pretty much running out of the box). I
have an external JCE provider (Phaos) that I'd like to use. I have added
the provider into my list of approved providers by adding a reference to
it under my JDK's java.security.
security.provider.6=com.phaos.jce.provider.Phaos
I also have the provider jar (Phaos_JCE_Provider.jar) added to the
WEB-INF/lib folder (and hence, into the tomcat classpath).
With that background, here is the problem. I find that my Tomcat
application does not seem to recognize Phaos as an available provider
when I run (causing NoSuchAlgorithmExceptions). Does anyone have any
ideas what the problem might be?
Some additional pieces of information.
- I can run this locally on my Windows system running a very similar
configuration without any problem (Tomcat recognizes the provider).
- I can run a test program on the Linux machine by adding the provider
jar to my classpath and it recognized the provider fine.
- I have confirmed that it is not a classpath issue within Tomcat. The
Tomcat application can find the jar itself under WEB-INF/lib (used
Classloader apis to confirm).
- It does not seem to be an issue with permissions on Tomcat. I have
added "permission java.security.AllPermission" to all the files under
the WEB-INF/lib within the catalina.policy under my application. Still
no success finding the provider.
I CAN get this to work, IF I add the provider jar under the jre\lib\ext
of my JDK and hence make it an installed extension. However, this is not
an solution that is acceptable right now.
I am looking for a solution that will allow me to keep the jar under the
WEB-INF\lib and still be able to recognize the provider. Any ideas on
how I can accomplish this? And why I am not able to get it working from
within Tomcat while this works fine from a test program?
Thanks.
Madhuri
