Craig, Thanks for the quick answer (as usual). I have a follow-up question regarding the class loader, does it only recognize JAR files? For example, old Oracle driver are packed in a ZIP file instead of a JAR, it appears that I have to explicity include the file in my classpath arg for Tomcat to locate it (although it's in my web-app/lib). Any ideas?
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:27 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: server.xml, Realms, and WARs On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mark Shaw wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:16:24 -0700 > From: Mark Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: server.xml, Realms, and WARs > > I don't think my problem has a solution, but let me ask anyway: > > I have a web-app that I deploy as a WAR, and this web-app uses its own Realm > implementation. In my "server.xml" I specify the host's realm to use my > realm so that my web-app can be dynamically deployed (I don't define a > context entry in server.xml for it). The problem is if I want to deploy > other web-apps in this host, they too must use the custom Realm. Is there > anyway to use a custom Realm without explicitly defining it in the > server.xml? Is there a way to defined my web-app context in my server.xml > and still be able to dynamically deploy it (via a WAR)? > In Tomcat 4.1.x you can do this, because it supports the ability to define a "context configuration file" that contains just the <Context> element (and it's nested content), which can be dynamically deployed along with your WAR. You could nest your custom <Realm> element inside this <Context> element, and it would only apply to this webapp. See the docs on the manager webapp for more info. Tomcat 4.0.x doesn't have any way to do this. > One other question: is there a way to specify classpath parameters for a > dynamically deployed web-app to reference classes that aren't in the sever, > common, web-app libraries? > Not without modifying Tomcat sources. > Thanks for any help with any these questions, I appreciated it. > -Mark > Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
