I'm still trying to use Realms on a per webapp context basis. This seems to be harder than I first imagined. Could someone from the tomcat developemt team please comment on whether this is possible or not at all? There are comments in the source that indicates that in theory this should be possible. But putting a <Realm ... /> anywhere else than inside the <Engine></Engine> part of server.xml is ignored. I have also tried using a single realm impl., but with context specific data lookup up using jndi. This doesn't work simply because the jndi context factory is created with a different class loader, and thus jndi.lookup() simply blocks the current thread running Realm.authenticate(). -- - Torgeir
