Thank you Jon, That's what I'm also trying but I always get a NPE because JNDIRealm.containerLog is null.
Do you know how I can figure out the Container from for example a Filter? In the case I could call realm.setContainer(container) no NPE would happen. Zsolt >-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Wingfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:05 PM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Re: How to configure my Realm class from context.xml? > >Your Realm implementation needs to sit in the server classloader as the >Realm interface is only defined there (in catalina.jar). > >This is a PITA so when we did this we made the Realm implementation just >lookup the real implementation via JNDI. That way all the authentication >logic stayed in the webapp and only a couple of simple wrapper classes >and interfaces went into the server and common classloaders. > >HTH, > >Jon > >Zsolt wrote: >> Does anybody know how to configure <Realm from .../META-INF/context.xml? >> >> <Realm className="my.realm.JNDIRealm" >> resourceName="my/RealmFactory"/> >> >> I always get a ClassNotFoundException but the class does exist (under >> ../WEB-INF. >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]