Hi, I am assuming you are calling createContext() on the org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded object. Do you think calling org.apache.catalina.Context.getServletContext() and then setAttribute on the returned ServletContext will help?
Just a thought. Do let me know if it makes sense. Sonal On 8/29/07, nlif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, I guess I did not explain myself very well... > > I have an application, that acts as bootstrap: it creates and initializes > various services, which provide a Java API to resources such as database, > file-system, and native libraries. In addition, I want that bootstrap > application to start an embedded tomcat, in which my web application will > run. Thus, *everything* is in the same process. The question was, how can > I > pass Java references from the bootstrap application to the web-apps in > side > the embedded Tomcat. > > I hope this makes it clear. > > I assume the Tomcat embedded APIs provide some way to pass a reference > into > the web-app contexts that are deployed in that Tomcat. I've never worked > with Tomcat as embedded, and frankly, I can't seem to find documentation > or > code-samples for it. If anyone can point me to anything, I'd appreciate > it. > > Thanks again. > > > > > > OFFICIAL WEBSITE wrote: > > > > If I understand correctly, external applications were started on one JVM > > and the tomcat is on another JVM, started separately or by the external > > application itself. > > > > Two JVMS running on on machine have nothing in common other than system > > resources. Open a serversocket at a named port on the external > > application and let the tomcat applications from webapps connect to it > > and exchange sweet talk on a mutually agreed protocol. > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 00:05 -0700, nlif wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> If I run Tomcat as embedded, is it possible for the application that > >> contains Tomcat to interact with web-apps that run inside that Tomcat? > >> For > >> example, the external application, in addition to starting the embedded > >> Tomcat, also manages other services, and the web-apps that runs inside > >> the > >> embedded Tomcat need to use those services. How can this be done? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Interacting-with-an-embedded-Tomcat-tf4346090.html#a12382936 > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thanks and Regards, Sonal