Russ, Updating your tomcat installation with custom components is most likely out of scope of Tomcat's application deployment. Perhaps you can offer your customers a customized tomcat installation kit with your JAAS jar preinstalled.
On Monday 02 April 2007 13:19, Russ Sherk wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking into using Tomcat's (5.x) authentication for our > web-app. The web-app will be deployed in a single WAR file so the > customers can drop it into their existing Tomcat installation. The > authentication needs to be done via our custom JAAS implementation > which is packaged in a jar. The authentication scheme is used by all > of our standalone and web-apps. > > Now, I have go to the point where the app is configured to use JAAS > but it requires that our JAAS implementation jar to be placed in > $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed. Which does not fit into our 'drop-in' > deployment plan. > > Is it possible to either configure the WAR deployment to add the jar > to the $CATALINA_HOME/server/endorsed directory without user/admin > intervention? > > Regards, > > --Russ -- Nicholas Sushkin, Senior Software Engineer http://www.openfinance.com http://www.wealthinformationexchange.com
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