-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André,
On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Peter Crowther wrote: >> 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay <anthony...@fastmail.fm>: >>> As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own >>> code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be >>> re-engineered and decoupled. >> >> This may be one of the few appropriate times where you may want to put >> code for the singletons (and all the classes that might be referenced >> by your singletons) in common/lib. It's not an ideal solution, but it >> may save you considerable effort as those classes will then be loaded >> by a single classloader, rather than the per-webapp classloaders. >> > Or then, this may be a case where you want to explore front-ending these > applications with an Apache httpd server, linked to Tomcat via an AJP > connector. > There is considerably more flexibility in Apache httpd regarding AAA > (since for one it is not bound by the servlet spec), and once a request > is authenticated, Apache and the connector will happily pass this > authenticated id to Tomcat. And you would have to change nothing to > your servlet-engine side code, singletons and all. Yeah, the problem is that AFAICT there is no standard way to do form-based authentication with Apache httpd. HTTP BASIC AUTH works wonderfully, but how would one implement form-based credential gathering? Is a custom module required for this, or does httpd come packaged with something that would work, even if a custom form /page/ would have to be developed that POSTs to a special URL? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksWpSEACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PD+jQCgm7QDsfdi+cfwF/n4mlo1ZHus bO0An1qrEFK3doN0l6D4zSkRREJ33YZ8 =vnb7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
