As a result of looking into https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40881, I discovered that the only use made of the Realm attribute of GenericPrincipal is to control whether or not a debug message is logged in RealmBase.hasRole()
Given that the Realm is the reason that GenericPrincipal is not Serializable, I'd like to propose the following changes for Tomcat 7. 1. Remove the Realm from GenericPrincipal 2. Make GenericPrincipal Serializable 3. Take advantage of this to simplify the Cluster code As a by product, this should also address bug 40881 by allowing any Realm that uses any Serializable Principal to work with clustering. Thoughts? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
