context.xml

Why use Tomcat's context.xml files to declare DBCP resources?

Im having trouble understanding why I would use a context.xml file to declare a resource, in my case a database connection pool. Hopefully I've got my facts straight in the following arguments against using context.xml As far as I can tell, resources declared in /META-INF/context.xml are only available within the context, so there's no...

Understanding context.xml in tomcat 6

Hi! I created a mainly empty dynamic web project in eclipse. It has no servlets no jsp files The web.xml is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocatio...

How to set the path of web app in META-INF/context.xml in Jetty?

I know how to do it in Tomcat configuration but how to do the same in Jetty server? ...

HTTP Status 404 after deploying a web application with a custom realm to Tomcat 6

Hi to everyone. I develop a web application for Tomcat 6, and I'm face to face with a problem I don't know how to resolve. Let's consider the following small scenario. Imagine that it's required to authenticate users not just by user and password, the authentication is only granted if some extra conditions are true (e.g. user, password,...

Migration Apache Tomcat 6 project with context.xml to GlassFish

Hi. I have application originally developed for Tomcat. There is context.xml file in META-INF using for creating datasource. As was mentioned here glassfish has support of context.xml file from Tomcat. I tried to migrate this app to Glassfishv3. But I still, my app (actually Hibernate) can't find jdbc datasource resource via jndi. There ...

Custom Tomcat Valve Configuration

Hi, I wrote a custom Tomcat valve. (I'm using Tomcat 6.0.24 and Java 1.6) Here's the XML element where I declare my valve: <Valve className="mypkg.MyValve" foo="bar"/> When I put this declaration inside server.xml's Host element. Tomcat calls the setFoo() method on my valve with the value "bar". That's what I want to happen. Ho...

Web application specific form authenticator under Tomcat 6

Hi to everyone. With your help I have successfully resolved a question that I have asked here. I have developed a custom Tomcat authenticator for the web application, and currently the authenticator and its configuration file are located in the %CATALINA_HOME%\lib\ directory. Unfortunately, the authenticator configuration file is almost...