Selectively running a war in Tomcat Web apps.

Question

Hi all,

Here is my problem statement- I have an application in webapps of tomcat. I want to run the application in the browser only after checking the licence of the software. Is it possible to stop the application from running, whereas allowing other wars to run in the browser.

Thanks, Adi

Answer 1

Is this for your own application or for third party software?

If its your own application then you could write a filter to check that the license is valid and then to redirect to an error page if it has expired.

Alternatively you could just throw an Exception...

Answer 2

If you just mistyped your question:

Nice article about different ways of seting up authentication in a webapp http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2000/jw-0428-websecurity.html

Answer 3

No. There is no standard API for deploying/undeploying web application, so you cannot do this in a web container agnostic way.

You can, however, ensure that all public entry points throw a servlet exception so you get redirected to the error page, where the license must be accepted.