SSL for WS between 2 instances of Tomcat

[Geoff Raeder <ge...@ssiutilitysuite.com>]

I came across the WSOverSSL tutorial on creating secure web services,
however I'm having difficulty applying it to my situation.  I'm trying
to create an SSL connection between two instances of Tomcat.  One is the
client and one is the server.  The soap transmission occurs between the
two.  Anyway, I have the server configured for SSL, and by following the
guidelines I created both the client.keystore and server.keystore.  My
question is how do I implement the client tomcat and where do I put
client.keystore to make it interact with server.keystore?  Thanks in
advance.

Re: Class Loading Problem

[Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>]

At 11:59 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>And for some twisted reason, I won't use WEB-INF/lib.

That is twisted!

>Rui
>
>On Tue, 25 May 2004, Rui Zhang wrote:
>
> > Well, I tired both. Neither worked...
> >

What are you trying?  I have certain jars in shared/lib and it works fine 
for me.  The jars I put in shared/lib are the jars with javax.* stuff in 
them.  These shoudn't been in WEB-INF/lib anyway.  They should be treated 
as if they are part of the JDK and, as such, endorsed.

More below....

> > Rui
> >
> > On Tue, 25 May 2004, Joe Nall wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On May 25, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 10:16 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >>   Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in
> > > >> Tomcat
> > > >> (say, in /server/classes)?
> > > >
> > > > No, that is for Tomcat's internal use only and is hidden to all other
> > > > classloaders.  Try using common/lib or shared/lib (only if you can't
> > > > or won't use WEB-INF/lib).
> > >
> > > What is the logic for determining if a library should go in shared/lib
> > > or common/lib?
> > >

shared/lib is separate among CATALINA_BASE instances.  That is, if you have 
multiple instances of Tomcat running with different CATALINA_BASE paths, 
shared/lib with be separate between them (each will have their 
own).  common/lib, on the other hand, is shared between all Tomcat 
instances.  It is also where you should put jars that the container needs 
to see such as JDBC drivers if you are using container managed 
datasources.  The server can't see stuff in shared/lib.  If the server 
doesn't need to see it, but your apps do, put jars in shared/lib.  If both 
your apps and the server need to see the jars, put them in 
common/lib.  However, put as much as you can in WEB-INF/lib and avoid a 
whole host of classloading oddities.


Jake


> > > joe
> > >
> >

Re: Class Loading Problem

[Rui Zhang <Ru...@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

And for some twisted reason, I won't use WEB-INF/lib.

Rui

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Rui Zhang wrote:

> Well, I tired both. Neither worked...
>
> Rui
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Joe Nall wrote:
>
> >
> > On May 25, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:16 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >>   Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in
> > >> Tomcat
> > >> (say, in /server/classes)?
> > >
> > > No, that is for Tomcat's internal use only and is hidden to all other
> > > classloaders.  Try using common/lib or shared/lib (only if you can't
> > > or won't use WEB-INF/lib).
> >
> > What is the logic for determining if a library should go in shared/lib
> > or common/lib?
> >
> > joe
> >
>

Re: Class Loading Problem

[Rui Zhang <Ru...@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Well, I tired both. Neither worked...

Rui

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Joe Nall wrote:

>
> On May 25, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
>
> > At 10:16 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>   Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in
> >> Tomcat
> >> (say, in /server/classes)?
> >
> > No, that is for Tomcat's internal use only and is hidden to all other
> > classloaders.  Try using common/lib or shared/lib (only if you can't
> > or won't use WEB-INF/lib).
>
> What is the logic for determining if a library should go in shared/lib
> or common/lib?
>
> joe
>

Re: Class Loading Problem

[Joe Nall <jo...@nall.com>]

On May 25, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:

> At 10:16 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in 
>> Tomcat
>> (say, in /server/classes)?
>
> No, that is for Tomcat's internal use only and is hidden to all other 
> classloaders.  Try using common/lib or shared/lib (only if you can't 
> or won't use WEB-INF/lib).

What is the logic for determining if a library should go in shared/lib 
or common/lib?

joe

Re: Class Loading Problem

[Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>]

At 10:16 PM 5/25/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in Tomcat
>(say, in /server/classes)?

No, that is for Tomcat's internal use only and is hidden to all other 
classloaders.  Try using common/lib or shared/lib (only if you can't or 
won't use WEB-INF/lib).

Jake


>   Many thanks.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Rui

Class Loading Problem

[Rui Zhang <Ru...@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

  Is it possible to configure Axis to load the classes resided in Tomcat
(say, in /server/classes)?

  Many thanks.

Best regards,

Rui