Struts-users!
Sorry if this is not the best forum for this; I am asking this here
becuase I think Struts factors into my question.
I am creating a web site that allows for the future addition of new
webapps to extend the original site. I would like to allow users to make
their add on as a full webapp, and I'll store the link to the new webapp in
my database.
One of the requirements I have is that I need to pass my session onto the
new webapp. But, oops, you can't do that. Tomcat (and the Servlet API)
doesn't let you pass a session to a new webapp - as far as I can tell. I
could pass the important tidbits as strings along in the URL and recreate a
session once I get to the new webapp, but that has its own set of
problems...it's insecure (no matter how i encode the URL), and it completely
messes up the first webapp, becuase when I return to that webapp the session
will probably have timed out.
Does anyone know of a way that I can maintain a list of trusted webapps
which I can pass session between? How about if there is a way to deploy an
entire webapp within the context of another? I don't want future developers
to need to mess with my code to get their apps into my context.
And here is the STRUTS part of my question. If I allow future developers
to simply put all of their JSPs/images/templates/etc. into a subdirectory in
my webapp, is there a way to allow them to either add their own
struts-config.xml file or make struts reread the struts-config.xml file
while Tomcat is still running? I also have a requirement of leaving the
server running while i deploy so that i don't lose sessions.
Any thoughts would be welcome and appreciated. I have looked through
archives for Tomcat and Struts and can't seem to find an answer.
Thanks in advance!
Becky
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