On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Stefan Gybas wrote: > > > I'm just trying to figure out why Tomcat does not work with a security > > manager on JDK 1.3 but works fine on JDK 1.4. Has anyone experience with > > this? > > I found the problem: It seems that JDK 1.3 does follow symlinks while > JDK 1.4 does not. The JARs are all in /usr/share/java/ with symlinks from > /usr/share/tomcat4/{server,common}/lib/ (in the class path). You have to add > this to catalina.policy so the XML parser (from /usr/share/java/xerces.jar) > can read server.xml on JDK 1.3:
jboss does this too, and it pisses me off.