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The following page has been changed by BrandonDuRette: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo The comment on the change is: fix wiki formatting bug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When you create a custom subclass of `RealmBase` or `GenericPrincipal` and attempt to use those classes in your webapp code, you'll probably have problems with `ClassCastException`. This is because the instance returned by `request.getUserPrincipal()` is of a class loaded by the server's classloader, and you are trying to access it through you webapp's classloader. While the classes maybe otherwise exactly the same, different (sibling) classloaders makes them different classes. - This assumes you created a {{{My``Principal}}} class, and put in Tomcat's server/classes (or lib) directory, as well as in your webapp's webinf/classes (or lib) directory. Normally, you would put custom realm and principal classes in the server directory because they depend on other classes there. + This assumes you created a `MyPrincipal` class, and put in Tomcat's server/classes (or lib) directory, as well as in your webapp's webinf/classes (or lib) directory. Normally, you would put custom realm and principal classes in the server directory because they depend on other classes there. Here's what you would like to do, but it throws `ClassCastException`: {{{ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
