Custom security realm/class loader issues

[Ravindar Reddy <rr...@attbi.com>]

I wrote a custom security realm for authentication. This realm class is 
referring to the code in the web application. When I try to deploy the 
realm in the web app context I get:

(1) Class not found exception for support classes that are defined in web 
app. Because of indirect references, I had to copy all my web application 
libraries to server/lib folder to avoid this error.
(2) When I copy web app libraries to server/lib folder I get class cast 
exception from the Apache digester library (I am using this in my web app)


Is there  anyway the realm code can resolve class references from the web 
app itself as it is configured in the web app context. I just want to avoid 
coping all the web app libraries to server/lib folder to support all 
classes referred in realm code.

I would very interested in knowing if there is any elegant solution to this 
other than putting all web app classes in system classpath or server/lib 
folder. I am working with Tomcat 4.0.3.

Regards
-Reddy R


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