Thanks for the quick answer but it seems I didn't explain my situation
completely.
We use Maven for all assignments, I can control what base project they
have to use for a specific assignment. Also in my testsuite I
automatically build these projects and deploy the artifacts to my
embedded tomcat.
The problem is when it comes to the policy files. Where do I need to add
the path to the policy file for the base maven projects of the students?
Is there any option in context.xml or so that I can use?
The second problem is that I want to configure the policy for each
student project when deploying on embedded tomcat(since the students
could change the file in their projects). Where do I have to configure
the policy when instantiating the StandardContext myself? I saw that the
Loader of the context is of the type WebappLoader and the ClassLoader is
a WebappClassLoader. I also found a method addPermission in
WebappClassLoader, but I don't want to parse the policy file myself and
add the permissions one by one. Isn't there an attribute to set the
policy for that class loader?
So to summarize it a bit, I want to know what to configure in e.g.
context.xml(if that is the place where to configure the policy) to have
a specific policy applied.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
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*Christian Beikov*
Am 24.04.2013 12:48, schrieb Martin Gainty:
Sooner or later your students will need to stop playing with IDEs and
get serious about creating a real war
Maven provides maven-war-plugin for creating deployable web archives
as far as applying differing policies (or configurations) you can use
archetypes for initial creation of the war
http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnex-book/reference/web-sect-creating-project.html
properties for deployment configuration changes can be manipulated by
passing attributes to MANIFEST.MF
bash>mvn Dmaven.war.containerConfigXML=MYContextXML.xml
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.3:manifest
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/manifest-mojo.html#containerConfigXML
bash>mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.3:war
the first command copies to META-INF your customised MYContextXML.xml
(context)
the second command builds out the war in \target folder
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/war-mojo.html
*Viel Gluck*
Martin
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General George Patton
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:29:27 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Policy files
>
> Hello there!
>
> I am using tomcat as an embedded container for a while now, it is
really
> amazing, but now I got stuck on a topic.
> I am implementing a testsuite for automatic testing of uploaded
> solutions by students. The deployment works like a charm, I also found
> your StuckThreadDetectionValve very useful to kill threads of the
> students applications.
> The next assignment will involve some areas where I would like to
> specify a policy file so that the students can't do anything they
aren't
> supposed to. Now to my problem.
>
> One thing is that I want a policy file to be in the students projects,
> so that they actually get the exceptions when they are doing something
> wrong. What do I have to configure in these student web projects so
that
> they can e.g. deploy the project directly from netbeans to tomcat and
> have the policy applied?
>
> The other thing is that I want the policy file to be in my testsuite
> project and configure it on demand when deploying the student
solutions.
> Currently I create an instance of StandardContext for each student web
> application, then I configure the context and finally add it to the
host
> of the server. What do I need to configure, to apply the policy in this
> case?
>
> I hope someone can help me with that, thanks in advance!
> --
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Christian Beikov*
