Hello All, I have been a big fan of tomcat, been using it since the 3.x days. Tomcat has some cool technologies and adheres to many standards. But I have found that the 5.5.x series has not really lived up to it's potential. Realms Custom Realms that worked flawlessly in 5.0, seem to break in 5.5. Even using the standard prepackaged Realms can be exercises in frustration when it comes to dealing with the classloaders (put LoginModule stuff in server/lib and but put jdbc driver in common/lib). Datasources The age of defining a global datasouce in one place seems to be dead in 5.5. Now in order for my JaasRealm (which uses a datasource) to even see a jdbc driver I have to declare the datasouce in the context xml in each one of my webapps. Webdav My most recent adventure. Allowing our marketing people to edit their own html files from a static webapp seemed be a nice way of not having to explain to them how to use cvs repositories and ant redploy scripts. Turns out that you can's change the docroot and from what I see so far, it doesn't care about Realm based authentication either. Like I said tomcat has a bunch of cool features. The problem (for me) is that making them work together can be a real PITA. I saw something is passing called jakarta Slide, not sure if that will help or not but my hope of an easy integration into my webapps are dim.
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