Yeah, well, UserDatabase didn't really attract many followers :). It's a nice concept, with a really s*cky implementation (esp. how it works with /admin :). At one point, there was an attempt at a JDBC UserDatabase, but it fizzled.
Short story: You're not missing anything. UserDatabase is currently the unloved orphaned child of Tomcat ;-). "Nic Daniau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm trying to configure Tomcat (5.5) with a DataSource realm the "proper" way. Configuring a DataSourceRealm directly is fine <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.DataSourceRealm" dataSourceName="jdbc/default" etc. but that's not what I want to do. I want to configure a realm that points to a UserDatabase and let this UserDatabase point to my DataSource resource. Why? well, in order to be able to use /manager/roles as pointed out in the FM<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/manager-howto.html#List%20Available%20Security%20Roles>. But also to conform with the sample server.xml given at install, which configures a MemoryUserDatabase first and then point the realm to this UserDatabse, which seams to make sense in the J2EE kind of approach. Anyway, in order to do this you need some sort of UserDatabase factory. But when you look in the API in org.apache.catalina.users, o deception! the only factory you can find is MemoryUserDatabaseFactory... no DataSourceUserDatabaseFactory or even JDBCUserDatabaseFactory as you would logically expect?... As we know MemoryRealm (and MemoryUserDatabase) is fairly useless in a production environment, so why would they have been to all the trouble of coming up with this UserDatabase thing if no corresponding implementation exists for the other realm types? That's when I say: I must be missing something reeeally obvious here... Any help welcome! Cheers, Nic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
