Functionality of for Servlets

[Gunnar Brading]

I have been in need of using the <run-as> tag in a Tomcat-only environment... Is this possible? Reading the source indicates that it wouldn't be possible to get the information about the role the context currently is in. Using the requests in-role methods of course tells me about
the user, and not the context.

Have I come to the right conclusion?

Reading the specs tells me that the functionality is meant for transferring roles to EJB's. Some documentation I found at Sun indicates though that even web-applications should be able to use this.

Anyone got more information about this?

Cheers,
-- gunnar

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