Does one of your apps have the Digester classes in its web app classpath? Did you make any changes to the policy file? What's appears to be happening is that the version of the Digester loaded doesn't have the appropriate runtime permissions to get another class's classloader. This kind of thing comes up if you have local versions of Apache commons jars deployed with a web app sometimes: The web app classloader gives priority to the classes in the web apps classpath instead of immediately delegating up the classloader tree, which in turn means that their codebases have limited permissions.
You have several options: 1) Root out the copied jars, if you're not intentionally overriding them 2) Use a custom security manager to log missing permissions and their codebases. I wrote my own, because I couldn't get jchains to work (you can try, though: http://jchains.org). Writing your own is not that hard. Then modify the policy file appropriately. 2) Turn off the security manager. This is tragically the most common choice. Benjamin J. Armintor Systems Analyst ITS-Systems: Mainframe Group University of Texas - Austin tele: (512) 232-6562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bort Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AccessControlException Hi all When we try to start up tomcat on our linux box, we get the following scroll in our catalina.out file: register('-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN', 'jar:file:/var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/RFP/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar!/org/apach e/st ruts/resources/struts-config_1_0.dtd' register('-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN', 'jar:file:/var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/RFP/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar!/org/apach e/st ruts/resources/web-app_2_2.dtd' register('-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN', 'jar:file:/var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/RFP/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar!/org/apach e/st ruts/resources/web-app_2_3.dtd' Digester.getParser: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission getClassLoader) at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext. java :269) at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:401 ) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:524) at java.lang.ClassLoader.getParent(ClassLoader.java:1034) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.toString(WebappClassLoader. java :888) at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2131) at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:370) at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.findJarServiceProvider(FactoryFinder.jav a:34 2) at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:226) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance(SAXParserFactory.java:134 ) at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.getParser(Digester.java:275) at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:755) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initMapping(ActionServlet.java:13 32) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:466) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.jav a:91 8) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:810) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.j ava: 3279) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3421 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:478) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:738) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:300) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:389) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:23 2) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSu ppor t.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:638) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:388) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:506) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:781) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) Can anyone tell us how to solve this problem? bort --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
