David, I think perhaps my post was a bit misleading: I'm actually less worried about security than I am about mixing code and classes, and just good practices. Several applications might be using different databases. But your answer was still on point:
%CATALINA_HOME%\lib (You can see from my nomenclature that I'm running a Windows Box!) Is what I was looking for. It'll give me a place to put the jar where only tomcat can see it. The only other question: Where can I put a JDBC driver jar so that only ONE application can see it? Thx -----Original Message----- From: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:21 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: MySQL JAR File Location Johnson, Garrett writes: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > Where should I drop a copy of the JDBC Driver .jar file that I need to > connect to MySQL from Tomcat? I understand there are a variety of > classloaders, invoked on a number of different directories. Obviously, I > could just dump it into %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext, but what if I wish to > restrict access to the Database? > > So I suppose this is 2 questions: > > 1. If I want all of my web applications to have access to the .jar file, > where's it go? > > 2. If I want only one of my web application to have access, where's it go? > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello Garrett, the tc docs says the $CATALINA_HOME/lib is global to tc webapps (after tc restart). this works me running oracle db 9.2 the oracle jar that contains the JDBC drivers is in the directory i mentioned and db access is available from all the webapps. i control user access from oracle and not from tc because oracle has more control over user access. i don't know what mySQL offers in terms of user access controls. hope this helps, david. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
