User Authentication For Download Page

Hi all, I offer download of a file on my site. It sends content using ServletOuputStream. This is the command that I exectly want to constraint with Tomcat's security mechanism (I use JDBC Realm). After user clicks on download, s/he gets forwarded to login. After login the File Download popup

creating threads in tomcat

Hi all; I realize this is a 'complex' (for me at least) question, but maybe someone can give me their opinion on it. I am using Tomcat 5 for my webapp which allows insertion of messages (and much more). I also need to have an independent 'engine' that will look into DB and 'handle' newly