You're right that you would need to modify Tomcat's code to do that. Commons-digester would need to be told how to read a new nested element. Without modifying the code, you may, however, be able to get away with something like:
<Manager className="org.app.MyManager" foo="foo" bar="bar"> .. where your custom MyManager class has String properties foo and bar. -- Jason Brittain Mulesoft http://www.mulesoft.com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Martin Grotzke < martin.grot...@javakaffee.de> wrote: > Hi, > > is it somehow possible to have a custom nested element below the Manager > element in server.xml/context.xml? E.g. > > <Manager className="org.app.MyManager"> > <FooBar foo="bar"/> > </Manager> > > where the MyManager class has a property fooBar? > > AFAICS the ContextRuleSet defines what's possible in the Context element > without any hook - so it seems that there's no possibility to achieve > this. > > If someone could tell me that I'm wrong with this asumption I would be > happy! :-) > > Thanx && cheers, > Martin > > -- > Martin Grotzke > http://www.javakaffee.de/blog/ >
