I have tested both methods, and both are working. Thanks a lot for your
help.
Le jeu. 9 sept. 2021 à 10:21, Martin Grigorov a
écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:34 PM Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>
> > Alain,
> >
> > On 9/8/21 14:26, alain hubert wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > my colleagues just gave me a challenge before I can retire but the
> > problem
> > > is I haven't done anything else than Email/Excel for years, being an
> > > old-school manager. Please be indulgent.
> > >
> > > It took hours before I could find the Tomcat source, unzip it, and much
> > > more to understand the magics with ANT which needs Java to run (I was
> > > ashamed to learn that but the Tomcat documentation is well written,
> > thanks).
> > >
> > > Here I am blocked, I need to implement a very simple Authenticator
> > relying
> > > on a proprietary Java library.
> > > When adding the import lines for importing this proprietary package,
> it's
> > > not possible to compile anymore.
> >
> > How important is it to build Tomcat *with* your custom library? What if,
> > instead, you compiled your library separately and used Tomcat as a
> > (previously-built) dependency?
> >
>
> As Chris suggested you could use Tomcat's jars as dependencies to build
> your own library.
> See https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina
> Then put your-library.jar either in yourApp.war#lib or in
> $CATALINA_BASE/lib and configure your Authenticator in
> yourApp.war#META-INF/context.xml or
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml/server.xml
> See https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/security-howto.html and
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/valve.html#Authentication
>
>
>
> >
> > > I get the following errors. From what I understand, building Tomcat
> > > with an additional library would need to add it somewhere but I was
> > > not able to find this in the documentation. Does anyone have an
> > > idea? >
> > > thanks for reading
> > > A.Hubert.
> > >
> > > compile:
> > > [javac] Compiling 1 source file to
> > > /home/ahubert/tests/tomcat-src/apache-tomcat-9.0.52-src/output/classes
> > > [javac]
> > >
> >
> /home/ahubert/tests/tomcat-src/apache-tomcat-9.0.52-src/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/BasicAuthenticatorToto.java:19:
> > > error: package com.exane.authentification does not exist
> > > [javac] import static com.exane.authentification.Authent.*;
> > > [javac]^
> > > [javac]
> > >
> >
> /home/ahubert/tests/tomcat-src/apache-tomcat-9.0.52-src/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/BasicAuthenticatorToto.java:20:
> > > error: package com.exane.authentification does not exist
> > > [javac] import static com.exane.authentification.Verif.*;
> > > [javac]^
> > > [javac]
> > >
> >
> /home/ahubert/tests/tomcat-src/apache-tomcat-9.0.52-src/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/BasicAuthenticatorToto.java:22:
> > > error: package com.exane.authentification does not exist
> > > [javac] import com.exane.authentification.*;
> > > [javac] ^
> > > [javac] 3 errors
> > >
> > > BUILD FAILED
> > > /home/ahubert/tests/tomcat-src/apache-tomcat-9.0.52-src/build.xml:973:
> > > Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.
> >
> > Where are the source files for com.exane.* to be found?
> >
>
> If you decide to modify Tomcat's sources directly then you should add your
> library to the build classpath.
> See
>
> https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/386912a93f130078f52e7094be3a730cda742121/build.xml#L214-L221
> The sources of com.exane.* are not really needed. You need the classes,
> i.e. the jar.
>
> Martin
>
>
> >
> > -chris
> >
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