I am not sure if this has come up or not, but the example showing how to do a JDBC realm at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/realm-howto.html#JDBCRealm is incorrect.
The example shows : <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=dbuser&password=dbpass" userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name"/> This does not get past the XML parser because the parser does not like the & all by itself. This should be the HTML entity for the & instead: <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=dbuser&password=dbpass" userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name"/> -- John ___________________________________________________________________ John Murtari Software Workshop Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 315.695.1301(x-211) "TheBook.Com" (TM) http://www.thebook.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>