shared classes for engine, service or global context

Hi I know how to instantiate classes for a session context or servlet context, but I need some classes on a more global level (like engine, service or global) shared by the entire server (NOT simple integers,booleans,..., but homemade classes). Does anyone know how to instantiate them and refer

basic identification + confidential

Hi, I have declared a webcontext to require basic identification and confidentiality (in tomcat 4). It works fine. I have the following question: upon opening a webpage over normal HTTP, IE warns that a switch is made to SSL (the certificate is not trusted: selfsigned for testing), the redirect,