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7<ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a><ol><li><a href="#Naming">Naming</a></li><li><a href="#Defining_a_context">Defining a context</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="#Attributes">Attributes</a><ol><li><a href="#Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</a></li><li><a href="#Standard_Implementation">Standard Implementation</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="#Nested_Components">Nested Components</a></li><li><a href="#Special_Features">Special Features</a><ol><li><a href="#Logging">Logging</a></li><li><a href="#Access_Logs">Access Logs</a></li><li><a href="#Automatic_Context_Configuration">Automatic Context Configuration</a></li><li><a href="#Context_Parameters">Context Parameters</a></li><li><a href="#Environment_Entries">Environment Entries</a></li><li><a href="#Lifecycle_Listeners">Lifecycle Listeners</a></li><li><a href="#Request_Filters">Request Filters</a></li><li><a href="#Resource_Definitions">Resource Definitions</a></li><li><a href="#Resource_Links">Resource Links</a></li><li><a href="#Transaction">Transaction</a></li></ol></li></ul>
8</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
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10 <blockquote><em>
11 <p>The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_BASE to refer the
12 base directory against which most relative paths are resolved. If you have
13 not configured Tomcat 6 for multiple instances by setting a CATALINA_BASE
14 directory, then $CATALINA_BASE will be set to the value of $CATALINA_HOME,
15 the directory into which you have installed Tomcat 6.</p>
16 </em></blockquote>
17
18 <p>The <strong>Context</strong> element represents a <em>web
19 application</em>, which is run within a particular virtual host.
20 Each web application is based on a <em>Web Application Archive</em>
21 (WAR) file, or a corresponding directory containing the corresponding
22 unpacked contents, as described in the Servlet Specification (version
23 2.2 or later). For more information about web application archives,
24 you can download the
25 <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications">Servlet
26 Specification</a>, and review the Tomcat
27 <a href="../appdev/index.html">Application Developer's Guide</a>.</p>
28
29 <p>The web application used to process each HTTP request is selected
30 by Catalina based on matching the longest possible prefix of the
31 Request URI against the <em>context path</em> of each defined Context.
32 Once selected, that Context will select an appropriate servlet to
33 process the incoming request, according to the servlet mappings defined
34 in the <em>web application deployment descriptor</em> file (which MUST
35 be located at <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> within the web app's
36 directory hierarchy).</p>
37
38 <p>You may define as many <strong>Context</strong> elements as you
39 wish. Each such Context MUST have a unique context path within a virtual
40 host. In
41 addition, a Context must be present with a context path equal to
42 a zero-length string. This Context becomes the <em>default</em>
43 web application for this virtual host, and is used to process all
44 requests that do not match any other Context's context path.</p>
45
46 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Naming"><strong>Naming</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
47 <p>When <code>autoDeploy</code> or <code>deployOnStartup</code> operations
48 are performed by a Host, the web application is specified by a context XML
49 file in <a href="host.html">Host</a>'s <code>xmlBase</code>
50 directory or by a WAR file or a directory file in Host's
51 <code>appBase</code> directory.
52 In this case the context path is derived from the name of the file that
53 is being deployed. Consequently, the context path <strong>may not</strong>
54 be defined in a <code>META-INF/context.xml</code> embedded in
55 the application. There is, therefore, a close relationship between the
56 <em>context path</em> and
57 the <em>base file name</em> (the name minus <code>.war</code> or
58 <code>.xml</code> extension) of the file.</p>
59
60 <p>Let us assume that you want to deploy your application to respond to
61 requests to URIs starting with certain context path. According to the
62 Servlet specification, the context path may be an empty string, or a
63 string starting with '/'. The rules to define the names for this context
64 path are the following:</p>
65
66 <ul>
67 <li>If the context path is a zero length string, the <em>base name</em> is
68 <code>"ROOT"</code> (uppercase)</li>
69 <li>If the context path is not a zero length string, the <em>base
70 name</em> is the context path with the leading '/' removed and any
71 remaining '/' characters in the path replaced with '#'.</li>
72 </ul>
73
74 <p>To help clarify these rules, some examples are given in the following
75 table.</p>
76
77 <table class="detail-table">
78 <tr>
79 <td bgcolor="#039acc" valign="top"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Context Path</font></td>
80 <td bgcolor="#039acc" valign="top"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Base File Name</font></td>
81 </tr>
82 <tr><td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">/foo</font></td><td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">foo</font></td></tr>
83 <tr>
84 <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">/foo/bar</font></td><td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">foo#bar</font></td>
85 </tr>
86 <tr>
87 <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><i>Empty String</i></font></td>
88 <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">ROOT</font></td>
89 </tr>
90 </table>
91
92 <p>If you want to deploy a WAR file or a directory using a context path that
93 is not related to the base file name then one of the following options must
94 be used to prevent double-deployment:
95 </p>
96 <ul>
97 <li>Disable autoDeploy and deployOnStartup and define all
98 <strong>Context</strong>s in server.xml</li>
99 <li>Locate the WAR and/or directory outside of the Host's appBase and use
100 a context.xml file with a docBase attribute to define it.</li>
101 </ul>
102 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
103
104 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Defining a context"><!--()--></a><a name="Defining_a_context"><strong>Defining a context</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
105 <p><b>It is NOT recommended to place
106 &lt;Context&gt; elements directly in the server.xml file.</b> This
107 is because it makes modifying the <strong>Context</strong> configuration
108 more invasive since the main <code>conf/server.xml</code> file cannot be
109 reloaded without restarting Tomcat.</p>
110
111 <p>Individual <strong>Context</strong> elements may be explicitly defined:
112 </p>
113 <ul>
114 <li>In an individual file at <code>/META-INF/context.xml</code> inside the
115 application files. In Tomcat 6 this file is automatically copied to
116 <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/</code> and renamed to
117 application's base file name plus a ".xml" extension.
118 (This automated copying became optional in Tomcat 7).
119 </li>
120 <li>In individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the
121 <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/</code> directory.
122 The context path will be derived from the base name of the file
123 (the file name less the .xml extension). This file will always take precedence
124 over any context.xml file packaged in the web application's META-INF
125 directory.</li>
126 <li>Inside a <a href="host.html">Host</a> element in the main
127 <code>conf/server.xml</code>.</li>
128 </ul>
129
130 <p>Default <strong>Context</strong> elements may be defined that apply to
131 multiple web applications. Configuration for an individual web application
132 will override anything configured in one of these defaults. Any nested
133 elements, e.g. &lt;Resource&gt; elements, that are defined in a default
134 <strong>Context</strong> will be created once for each
135 <strong>Context</strong> to which the default applies. They will <b>not</b> be
136 shared between <strong>Context</strong> elements.
137 </p>
138 <ul>
139 <li>In the <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml</code> file:
140 the Context element information will be loaded by all web applications.</li>
141 <li>In the
142 <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default</code>
143 file: the Context element information will be loaded by all web applications
144 of that host.</li>
145 </ul>
146
147 <p>With the exception of server.xml, files that define <strong>Context
148 </strong> elements may only define a single <strong>Context</strong> element.
149 </p>
150
151 <p>In addition to explicitly specified Context elements, there are
152 several techniques by which Context elements can be created automatically
153 for you. See <a href="host.html#Automatic_Application_Deployment">
154 Automatic Application Deployment</a> and
155 <a href="host.html#User_Web_Applications">User Web Applications</a>
156 for more information.</p>
157
158 <p>To define multiple contexts that use a single WAR file or directory,
159 use one of the options described in the <a href="#Naming">Naming</a>
160 section above for creating a <strong>Context</strong> that has a path
161 that is not related to the base file name.</p>
162 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
163
164</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
165
166 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Common Attributes"><!--()--></a><a name="Common_Attributes"><strong>Common Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
167
168 <p>All implementations of <strong>Context</strong>
169 support the following attributes:</p>
170
171 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>backgroundProcessorDelay</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
172 <p>This value represents the delay in seconds between the
173 invocation of the backgroundProcess method on this context and
174 its child containers, including all wrappers.
175 Child containers will not be invoked if their delay value is not
176 negative (which would mean they are using their own processing
177 thread). Setting this to a positive value will cause
178 a thread to be spawn. After waiting the specified amount of time,
179 the thread will invoke the backgroundProcess method on this host
180 and all its child containers. A context will use background
181 processing to perform session expiration and class monitoring for
182 reloading. If not specified, the default value for this attribute is
183 -1, which means the context will rely on the background processing
184 thread of its parent host.</p>
185 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>className</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
186 <p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
187 implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Context</code> interface.
188 If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p>
189 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>cookies</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
190 <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want cookies to be used for
191 session identifier communication if supported by the client (this
192 is the default). Set to <code>false</code> if you want to disable
193 the use of cookies for session identifier communication, and rely
194 only on URL rewriting by the application.</p>
195 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>crossContext</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
196 <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want calls within this application
197 to <code>ServletContext.getContext()</code> to successfully return a
198 request dispatcher for other web applications running on this virtual
199 host. Set to <code>false</code> (the default) in security
200 conscious environments, to make <code>getContext()</code> always
201 return <code>null</code>.</p>
202 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>disableURLRewriting</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
203 <p>Set to <code>true</code> to disable support for using URL rewriting
204 to track session IDs for clients of this Context. URL rewriting is an
205 optional component of the servlet 2.5 specification but disabling URL
206 rewriting will result in non-compliant behaviour since the specification
207 requires that there <em>must</em> be a way to retain sessions if the
208 client doesn't allow session cookies. If not specified, the
209 specification compliant default value of <code>false</code> will be
210 used.</p>
211 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>docBase</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
212 <p>The <em>Document Base</em> (also known as the <em>Context
213 Root</em>) directory for this web application, or the pathname
214 to the web application archive file (if this web application is
215 being executed directly from the WAR file). You may specify
216 an absolute pathname for this directory or WAR file, or a pathname
217 that is relative to the <code>appBase</code> directory of the
218 owning <a href="host.html">Host</a>.</p>
219 <p>The value of this field must not be set unless the Context element is
220 defined in server.xml or the <code>docBase</code> is not located under
221 the <a href="host.html">Host</a>'s <code>appBase</code>.</p>
222 <p>If a symbolic link is used for docBase then changes to the
223 symbolic link will only be effective after a Tomcat restart or
224 by undeploying and redeploying the context. A context reload is not
225 sufficient.</p>
226 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>override</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
227 <p>Set to <code>true</code> to have explicit settings in this
228 Context element override any corresponding settings in either the global
229 or <a href="host.html">Host</a> default contexts. By default, settings
230 from a default context will be used.</p>
231 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>privileged</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
232 <p>Set to <code>true</code> to allow this context to use container
233 servlets, like the manager servlet. Use of the <code>privileged</code>
234 attribute will change the context's parent class loader to be the
235 <em>Server</em> class loader rather than the <em>Shared</em> class
236 loader. Note that in a default installation, the <em>Common</em> class
237 loader is used for both the <em>Server</em> and the <em>Shared</em>
238 class loaders.</p>
239 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>path</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
240 <p>The <em>context path</em> of this web application, which is
241 matched against the beginning of each request URI to select the
242 appropriate web application for processing. All of the context paths
243 within a particular <a href="host.html">Host</a> must be unique.
244 If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are
245 defining the <em>default</em> web application for this Host, which
246 will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts.</p>
247 <p>This attribute must only be used when statically defining a Context
248 in server.xml. In all other circumstances, the path will be inferred
249 from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.
250 </p>
251 <p>Even when statically defining a Context in server.xml, this attribute
252 must not be set unless either the docBase is not located under the
253 <a href="host.html">Host</a>'s <code>appBase</code> or both
254 <code>deployOnStartup</code> and <code>autoDeploy</code> are false. If
255 this rule is not followed, double deployment is likely to result.</p>
256 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>reloadable</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
257 <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want Catalina to monitor classes in
258 <code>/WEB-INF/classes/</code> and <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> for
259 changes, and automatically reload the web application if a change
260 is detected. This feature is very useful during application
261 development, but it requires significant runtime overhead and is
262 not recommended for use on deployed production applications. That's
263 why the default setting for this attribute is <i>false</i>. You
264 can use the <a href="../manager-howto.html">Manager</a> web
265 application, however, to trigger reloads of deployed applications
266 on demand.</p>
267 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>sessionCookieDomain</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
268 <p>The domain to be used for all session cookies created for this
269 Context. If not set, no domain will be specified for session cookies.
270 </p>
271 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>sessionCookieName</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
272 <p>The name to be used for all session cookies created for this
273 Context. If not set, the default of JSESSIONID will be used. Note that
274 this default will be overridden by the
275 <strong>org.apache.catalina.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME</strong> system
276 property.</p>
277 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>sessionCookiePath</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
278 <p>The path to be used for all session cookies created for this
279 Context. If not set, the context path will be used. Note that this will
280 be overridden by the <strong>emptySessionPath</strong> attribute on the
281 connector used to access this Context.</p>
282 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>tldValidation</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
283 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the TLD files
284 will be XML validated on context startup. If the
285 <code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code>
286 <a href="systemprops.html">system property</a> is set to
287 <code>true</code>, the default value of this attribute will be
288 <code>true</code>, else the default value will be <code>false</code>.
289 Setting this attribute to <code>true</code> will incur a performance
290 penalty.</p>
291 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>useHttpOnly</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
292 <p>Should the HttpOnly flag be set on session cookies to prevent client
293 side script from accessing the session ID? Defaults to
294 <code>false</code>.</p>
295 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>wrapperClass</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
296 <p>Java class name of the <code>org.apache.catalina.Wrapper</code>
297 implementation class that will be used for servlets managed by this
298 Context. If not specified, a standard default value will be used.</p>
299 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>xmlBlockExternal</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
300 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the parsing of
301 <code>web.xml</code>, <code>web-fragment.xml</code>, <code>*.tld</code>,
302 <code>*.jspx</code>, <code>*.tagx</code> and <code>tagPlugins.xml</code>
303 files for this web application will not permit external entities to be
304 loaded. If a <code>SecurityManager</code> is configured then the default
305 value of this attribute will be <code>true</code>, else the default
306 value will be <code>false</code>.</p>
307 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>xmlNamespaceAware</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
308 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the parsing of the
309 <code>web.xml</code> file for this web application will be
310 namespace-aware. Note that <code>*.tld</code>, <code>*.jspx</code> and
311 <code>*.tagx</code> files are always parsed using a namespace-aware
312 parser and that the <code>tagPlugins.xml</code> file (if any) is never
313 parsed using a namespace-aware parser. Note also that if you turn this
314 flag on, you should probably also turn <code>xmlValidation</code> on. If
315 the <code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code>
316 <a href="systemprops.html">system property</a> is set to
317 <code>true</code>, the default value of this attribute will be
318 <code>true</code>, else the default value will be <code>false</code>.
319 Setting this attribute to <code>true</code> will incur a performance
320 penalty.</p>
321 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>xmlValidation</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
322 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the parsing of the
323 <code>web.xml</code> file for this web application will use a validating
324 parser. If the
325 <code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code>
326 <a href="systemprops.html">system property</a> is set to
327 <code>true</code>, the default value of this attribute will be
328 <code>true</code>, else the default value will be <code>false</code>.
329 Setting this attribute to <code>true</code> will incur a performance
330 penalty.</p>
331 </td></tr></table>
332
333 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
334
335
336 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Standard Implementation"><!--()--></a><a name="Standard_Implementation"><strong>Standard Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
337
338 <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Context</strong> is
339 <strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext</strong>.
340 It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
341 common attributes listed above):</p>
342
343 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>allowLinking</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
344 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, symlinks will be
345 allowed inside the web application, pointing to resources outside the
346 web application base path. If not specified, the default value
347 of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p>
348 <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform
349 (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem),
350 as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code
351 disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p>
352 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>antiJARLocking</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
353 <p>If true, the Tomcat classloader will take extra measures to avoid
354 JAR file locking when resources are accessed inside JARs through URLs.
355 This will impact startup time of applications, but could prove to be
356 useful on platforms or configurations where file locking can occur.
357 If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p>
358
359 <p><code>antiJARLocking</code> is a subset of
360 <code>antiResourceLocking</code> and therefore, to prevent duplicate
361 work and possible issues, only one of these attributes should be set
362 to <code>true</code> at any one time.</p>
363 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>antiResourceLocking</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
364 <p>If true, Tomcat will prevent any file locking.
365 This will significantly impact startup time of applications,
366 but allows full webapp hot deploy and undeploy on platforms
367 or configurations where file locking can occur.
368 If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p>
369
370 <p><code>antiJARLocking</code> is a subset of
371 <code>antiResourceLocking</code> and therefore, to prevent duplicate
372 work and possible issues, only one of these attributes should be set
373 to <code>true</code> at any one time.</p>
374
375 <p>Please note that setting this to <code>true</code> has some side
376 effects, including the disabling of JSP reloading in a running server:
377 see <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37668">
378 Bugzilla 37668</a>.</p>
379
380 <p>Please note that setting this flag to true in applications that are
381 outside the appBase for the Host (the <code>webapps</code> directory
382 by default) will cause the application to be <strong>deleted</strong> on
383 Tomcat shutdown. You probably don't want to do this, so think twice
384 before setting antiResourceLocking=true on a webapp that's outside the
385 appBase for its Host.</p>
386 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>cacheMaxSize</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
387 <p>Maximum size of the static resource cache in kilobytes.
388 If not specified, the default value is <code>10240</code>
389 (10 megabytes).</p>
390 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>cacheObjectMaxSize</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
391 <p>Maximum size of the static resource that will be placed in the cache.
392 If not specified, the default value is <code>512</code>
393 (512 kilobytes). If this value is greater than
394 <code>cacheMaxSize/20</code> it will be reduced to
395 <code>cacheMaxSize/20</code>.</p>
396 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>cacheTTL</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
397 <p>Amount of time in milliseconds between cache entries revalidation.
398 If not specified, the default value is <code>5000</code>
399 (5 seconds).</p>
400 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>cachingAllowed</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
401 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the cache for static
402 resources will be used. If not specified, the default value
403 of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p>
404 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>caseSensitive</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
405 <p><strong>Deprecated.</strong> This option is removed in Tomcat 7
406 onwards where the default of <code>true</code> is always used.</p>
407 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>false</code>, all case sensitivity
408 checks will be disabled. If not
409 specified, the default value of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p>
410 <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to false on the Windows platform
411 (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem),
412 as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code
413 disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p>
414 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>clearReferencesHttpClientKeepAliveThread</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
415 <p>If <code>true</code> and an <code>sun.net.www.http.HttpClient</code>
416 keep-alive timer thread has been started by this web application and is
417 still running, Tomcat will change the context class loader for that
418 thread from the current <code>WebappClassLoader</code> to
419 <code>WebappClassLoader#parent</code> to prevent a memory leak. Note
420 that the keep-alive timer thread will stop on its own once the
421 keep-alives all expire however, on a busy system that might not happen
422 for some time. If not specified, the default value of
423 <code>true</code> will be used.</p>
424 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>clearReferencesStopThreads</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
425 <p>If <code>true</code>, Tomcat attempts to terminate threads that have
426 been started by the web application. Stopping threads is performed via
427 the deprecated (for good reason) <code>Thread.stop()</code> method and
428 is likely to result in instability. As such, enabling this should be
429 viewed as an option of last resort in a development environment and is
430 not recommended in a production environment. If not specified, the
431 default value of <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
432 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>clearReferencesStopTimerThreads</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
433 <p>If <code>true</code>, Tomcat attempts to terminate
434 <code>java.util.Timer</code> threads that have been started by the web
435 application. Unlike standard threads, timer threads can be stopped
436 safely although there may still be side-effects for the application. If
437 not specified, the default value of <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
438 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>clearReferencesThreadLocals</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
439 <p>If <code>true</code>, Tomcat attempts to clear any ThreadLocal
440 objects that are instances of classes loaded by this class loader.
441 Failure to remove any such objects will result in a memory leak on web
442 application stop, undeploy or reload. If not specified, the default
443 value of <code>false</code> will be used since the clearing of the
444 ThreadLocal objects is not performed in a thread-safe manner.</p>
445 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>processTlds</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
446 <p>Whether the context should process TLDs on startup. The default
447 is true. The false setting is intended for special cases
448 that know in advance TLDs are not part of the webapp.</p>
449 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>swallowOutput</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
450 <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the bytes output to
451 System.out and System.err by the web application will be redirected to
452 the web application logger. If not specified, the default value
453 of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p>
454 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>unloadDelay</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
455 <p>Number of ms that the container will wait for servlets to unload.
456 If not specified, the default value is <code>2000</code> ms.</p>
457 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>unpackWAR</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
458 <p>If true, Tomcat will unpack all compressed web applications before
459 running them.
460 If not specified, the default value is <code>true</code>.</p>
461 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>useNaming</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
462 <p>Set to <code>true</code> (the default) to have Catalina enable a
463 JNDI <code>InitialContext</code> for this web application that is
464 compatible with Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform
465 conventions.</p>
466 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>workDir</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
467 <p>Pathname to a scratch directory to be provided by this Context
468 for temporary read-write use by servlets within the associated web
469 application. This directory will be made visible to servlets in the
470 web application by a servlet context attribute (of type
471 <code>java.io.File</code>) named
472 <code>javax.servlet.context.tempdir</code> as described in the
473 Servlet Specification. If not specified, a suitable directory
474 underneath <code>$CATALINA_BASE/work</code> will be provided.</p>
475 </td></tr></table>
476
477 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
478
479
480</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Nested Components"><!--()--></a><a name="Nested_Components"><strong>Nested Components</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
481
482 <p>You can nest at most one instance of the following utility components
483 by nesting a corresponding element inside your <strong>Context</strong>
484 element:</p>
485 <ul>
486 <li><a href="loader.html"><strong>Loader</strong></a> -
487 Configure the web application class loader that will be used to load
488 servlet and bean classes for this web application. Normally, the
489 default configuration of the class loader will be sufficient.</li>
490 <li><a href="manager.html"><strong>Manager</strong></a> -
491 Configure the session manager that will be used to create, destroy,
492 and persist HTTP sessions for this web application. Normally, the
493 default configuration of the session manager will be sufficient.</li>
494 <li><a href="realm.html"><strong>Realm</strong></a> -
495 Configure a realm that will allow its
496 database of users, and their associated roles, to be utilized solely
497 for this particular web application. If not specified, this web
498 application will utilize the Realm associated with the owning
499 <a href="host.html">Host</a> or <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>.</li>
500 <li><a href="resources.html"><strong>Resources</strong></a> -
501 Configure the resource manager that will be used to access the static
502 resources associated with this web application. Normally, the
503 default configuration of the resource manager will be sufficient.</li>
504 <li><strong>WatchedResource</strong> - The auto deployer will monitor the
505 specified static resource of the web application for updates, and will
506 reload the web application if is is updated. The content of this element
507 must be a string.</li>
508 </ul>
509
510</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Special Features"><!--()--></a><a name="Special_Features"><strong>Special Features</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
511
512
513 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Logging"><strong>Logging</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
514
515 <p>A context is associated with the
516 <code>org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[enginename].[hostname].[path]</code>
517 log category. Note that the brackets are actually part of the name, don't omit them.</p>
518
519 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
520
521
522 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Access Logs"><!--()--></a><a name="Access_Logs"><strong>Access Logs</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
523
524 <p>When you run a web server, one of the output files normally generated
525 is an <em>access log</em>, which generates one line of information for
526 each request processed by the server, in a standard format. Catalina
527 includes an optional <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> implementation that
528 can create access logs in the same standard format created by web servers,
529 or in any number of custom formats.</p>
530
531 <p>You can ask Catalina to create an access log for all requests
532 processed by an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>,
533 <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or <a href="context.html">Context</a>
534 by nesting a <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> element like this:</p>
535
536<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
537&lt;Context&gt;
538 ...
539 &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
540 prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
541 pattern="common"/&gt;
542 ...
543&lt;/Context&gt;
544</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
545
546 <p>See <a href="valve.html#Access Log Valve">Access Log Valve</a>
547 for more information on the configuration attributes that are
548 supported.</p>
549
550 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
551
552
553 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Automatic Context Configuration"><!--()--></a><a name="Automatic_Context_Configuration"><strong>Automatic Context Configuration</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
554
555 <p>If you use the standard <strong>Context</strong> implementation,
556 the following configuration steps occur automatically when Catalina
557 is started, or whenever this web application is reloaded. No special
558 configuration is required to enable this feature.</p>
559
560 <ul>
561 <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="loader.html">Loader</a>
562 element, a standard web application class loader will be configured.
563 </li>
564 <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="manager.html">Manager</a>
565 element, a standard session manager will be configured.</li>
566 <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="resources.html">Resources</a>
567 element, a standard resources manager will be configured.</li>
568 <li>The web application properties listed in <code>conf/web.xml</code>
569 will be processed as defaults for this web application. This is used
570 to establish default mappings (such as mapping the <code>*.jsp</code>
571 extension to the corresponding JSP servlet), and other standard
572 features that apply to all web applications.</li>
573 <li>The web application properties listed in the
574 <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> resource for this web application
575 will be processed (if this resource exists).</li>
576 <li>If your web application has specified security constraints that might
577 require user authentication, an appropriate Authenticator that
578 implements the login method you have selected will be configured.</li>
579 </ul>
580
581 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
582
583
584 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Context Parameters"><!--()--></a><a name="Context_Parameters"><strong>Context Parameters</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
585
586 <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the
587 web application as servlet context initialization parameters by nesting
588 <code>&lt;Parameter&gt;</code> elements inside this element. For
589 example, you can create an initialization parameter like this:</p>
590<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
591&lt;Context&gt;
592 ...
593 &lt;Parameter name="companyName" value="My Company, Incorporated"
594 override="false"/&gt;
595 ...
596&lt;/Context&gt;
597</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
598
599 <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
600 web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):
601 </p>
602<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
603&lt;context-param&gt;
604 &lt;param-name&gt;companyName&lt;/param-name&gt;
605 &lt;param-value&gt;My Company, Incorporated&lt;/param-value&gt;
606&lt;/context-param&gt;
607</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
608 <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor
609 to customize this value.</p>
610
611 <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;Parameter&gt;</code> element
612 are as follows:</p>
613
614 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>description</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
615 <p>Optional, human-readable description of this context
616 initialization parameter.</p>
617 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
618 <p>The name of the context initialization parameter to be created.</p>
619 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>override</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
620 <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want
621 a <code>&lt;context-param&gt;</code> for the same parameter name,
622 found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the
623 value specified here. By default, overrides are allowed.</p>
624 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>value</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
625 <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application
626 when requested by calling
627 <code>ServletContext.getInitParameter()</code>.</p>
628 </td></tr></table>
629
630 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
631
632
633 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Environment Entries"><!--()--></a><a name="Environment_Entries"><strong>Environment Entries</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
634
635 <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the
636 web application as environment entry resources, by nesting
637 <code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> entries inside this element. For
638 example, you can create an environment entry like this:</p>
639<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
640&lt;Context&gt;
641 ...
642 &lt;Environment name="maxExemptions" value="10"
643 type="java.lang.Integer" override="false"/&gt;
644 ...
645&lt;/Context&gt;
646</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
647
648 <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
649 web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):
650 </p>
651<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
652&lt;env-entry&gt;
653 &lt;env-entry-name&gt;maxExemptions&lt;/env-entry-name&gt;
654 &lt;env-entry-value&gt;10&lt;/env-entry-value&gt;
655 &lt;env-entry-type&gt;java.lang.Integer&lt;/env-entry-type&gt;
656&lt;/env-entry&gt;
657</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
658 <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor
659 to customize this value.</p>
660
661 <p>The valid attributes for an <code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> element
662 are as follows:</p>
663
664 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>description</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
665 <p>Optional, human-readable description of this environment entry.</p>
666 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
667 <p>The name of the environment entry to be created, relative to the
668 <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
669 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>override</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
670 <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want
671 an <code>&lt;env-entry&gt;</code> for the same environment entry name,
672 found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the
673 value specified here. By default, overrides are allowed.</p>
674 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
675 <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web application
676 for this environment entry. Must be one of the legal values for
677 <code>&lt;env-entry-type&gt;</code> in the web application deployment
678 descriptor: <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>,
679 <code>java.lang.Byte</code>, <code>java.lang.Character</code>,
680 <code>java.lang.Double</code>, <code>java.lang.Float</code>,
681 <code>java.lang.Integer</code>, <code>java.lang.Long</code>,
682 <code>java.lang.Short</code>, or <code>java.lang.String</code>.</p>
683 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>value</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
684 <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application
685 when requested from the JNDI context. This value must be convertable
686 to the Java type defined by the <code>type</code> attribute.</p>
687 </td></tr></table>
688
689 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
690
691
692 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Lifecycle Listeners"><!--()--></a><a name="Lifecycle_Listeners"><strong>Lifecycle Listeners</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
693
694 <p>If you have implemented a Java object that needs to know when this
695 <strong>Context</strong> is started or stopped, you can declare it by
696 nesting a <strong>Listener</strong> element inside this element. The
697 class name you specify must implement the
698 <code>org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener</code> interface, and
699 the class must be packaged in a jar and placed in the
700 <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> directory.
701 It will be notified about the occurrence of the corresponding
702 lifecycle events. Configuration of such a listener looks like this:</p>
703
704<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
705&lt;Context&gt;
706 ...
707 &lt;Listener className="com.mycompany.mypackage.MyListener" ... &gt;
708 ...
709&lt;/Context&gt;
710</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
711
712 <p>Note that a Listener can have any number of additional properties
713 that may be configured from this element. Attribute names are matched
714 to corresponding JavaBean property names using the standard property
715 method naming patterns.</p>
716
717 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
718
719
720 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Request Filters"><!--()--></a><a name="Request_Filters"><strong>Request Filters</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
721
722 <p>You can ask Catalina to check the IP address, or host name, on every
723 incoming request directed to the surrounding
724 <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or
725 <a href="context.html">Context</a> element. The remote address or name
726 will be checked against a configured list of "accept" and/or "deny"
727 filters, which are defined using <code>java.util.regex</code> Regular
728 Expression syntax. Requests that come from locations that are
729 not accepted will be rejected with an HTTP "Forbidden" error.
730 Example filter declarations:</p>
731
732<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
733&lt;Context&gt;
734 ...
735 &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve"
736 allow=".*\.mycompany\.com|www\.yourcompany\.com"/&gt;
737 &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
738 deny="192\.168\.1\.\d+"/&gt;
739 ...
740&lt;/Context&gt;
741</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
742
743 <p>See <a href="valve.html#Remote Address Filter">Remote Address Filter</a>
744 and <a href="valve.html#Remote Host Filter">Remote Host Filter</a> for
745 more information about the configuration options that are supported.</p>
746
747 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
748
749
750 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Resource Definitions"><!--()--></a><a name="Resource_Definitions"><strong>Resource Definitions</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
751
752 <p>You can declare the characteristics of the resource
753 to be returned for JNDI lookups of <code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</code> and
754 <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> elements in the web application
755 deployment descriptor. You <strong>MUST</strong> also define
756 the needed resource parameters as attributes of the <code>Resource</code>
757 element, to configure the object factory to be used (if not known to Tomcat
758 already), and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p>
759
760 <p>For example, you can create a resource definition like this:</p>
761<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
762&lt;Context&gt;
763 ...
764 &lt;Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB" auth="Container"
765 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
766 description="Employees Database for HR Applications"/&gt;
767 ...
768&lt;/Context&gt;
769</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
770
771 <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
772 web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):</p>
773<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
774&lt;resource-ref&gt;
775 &lt;description&gt;Employees Database for HR Applications&lt;/description&gt;
776 &lt;res-ref-name&gt;jdbc/EmployeeDB&lt;/res-ref-name&gt;
777 &lt;res-ref-type&gt;javax.sql.DataSource&lt;/res-ref-type&gt;
778 &lt;res-auth&gt;Container&lt;/res-auth&gt;
779&lt;/resource-ref&gt;
780</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
781
782 <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment
783 descriptor to customize this value.</p>
784
785 <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;Resource&gt;</code> element
786 are as follows:</p>
787
788 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>auth</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
789 <p>Specify whether the web Application code signs on to the
790 corresponding resource manager programatically, or whether the
791 Container will sign on to the resource manager on behalf of the
792 application. The value of this attribute must be
793 <code>Application</code> or <code>Container</code>. This
794 attribute is <strong>required</strong> if the web application
795 will use a <code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</code> element in the web
796 application deployment descriptor, but is optional if the
797 application uses a <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> instead.</p>
798 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>description</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
799 <p>Optional, human-readable description of this resource.</p>
800 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
801 <p>The name of the resource to be created, relative to the
802 <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
803 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>scope</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
804 <p>Specify whether connections obtained through this resource
805 manager can be shared. The value of this attribute must be
806 <code>Shareable</code> or <code>Unshareable</code>. By default,
807 connections are assumed to be shareable.</p>
808 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
809 <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web
810 application when it performs a lookup for this resource.</p>
811 </td></tr></table>
812
813
814 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
815
816
817 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Resource Links"><!--()--></a><a name="Resource_Links"><strong>Resource Links</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
818
819 <p>This element is used to create a link to a global JNDI resource. Doing
820 a JNDI lookup on the link name will then return the linked global
821 resource.</p>
822
823 <p>For example, you can create a resource link like this:</p>
824<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
825&lt;Context&gt;
826 ...
827 &lt;ResourceLink name="linkToGlobalResource"
828 global="simpleValue"
829 type="java.lang.Integer"
830 ...
831&lt;/Context&gt;
832</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
833
834 <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;ResourceLink&gt;</code> element
835 are as follows:</p>
836
837 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>global</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
838 <p>The name of the linked global resource in the
839 global JNDI context.</p>
840 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
841 <p>The name of the resource link to be created, relative to the
842 <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
843 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
844 <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web
845 application when it performs a lookup for this resource link.</p>
846 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>factory</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
847 <p>The fully qualified Java class name for the class creating these objects.
848 This class should implement the <code>javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory</code> interface.</p>
849 </td></tr></table>
850
851 <p>When the attribute <code>factory="org.apache.naming.factory.DataSourceLinkFactory"</code> the resource link can be used with
852 two additional attributes to allow a shared data source to be used with different credentials.
853 When these two additional attributes are used in combination with the <code>javax.sql.DataSource</code>
854 type, different contexts can share a global data source with different credentials.
855 Under the hood, what happens is that a call to <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/sql/DataSource.html#getConnection()"><code>getConnection()</code></a>
856 is simply translated to a call <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/sql/DataSource.html#getConnection(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)">
857 <code>getConnection(username, password)</code></a> on the global data source. This is an easy way to get code to be transparent to what schemas are being used,
858 yet be able to control connections (or pools) in the global configuration.
859 </p>
860 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>username</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
861 <p><code>username</code> value for the <code>getConnection(username, password)</code>
862 call on the linked global DataSource.
863 </p>
864 </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><code>password</code></td><td align="left" valign="center">
865 <p><code>password</code> value for the <code>getConnection(username, password)</code>
866 call on the linked global DataSource.
867 </p>
868 </td></tr></table>
869 <p>Shared Data Source Example:</p>
870 <p><strong>Warning:</strong> This feature works only if the global DataSource
871supports <code>getConnection(username, password)</code> method.
872<a href="http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/">Apache Commons DBCP</a> pool that
873Tomcat uses by default does not support it. See its Javadoc for
874<code>BasicDataSource</code> class.
875<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/jdbc-pool.html">Apache Tomcat JDBC pool</a>
876(included with Tomcat 7 and later) does support it,
877but by default this support is disabled and can be enabled by
878<code>alternateUsernameAllowed</code> attribute. See its documentation
879for details. The example below uses Apache Tomcat JDBC pool.</p>
880<div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>
881&lt;GlobalNamingResources&gt;
882 ...
883 &lt;Resource name="sharedDataSource"
884 global="sharedDataSource"
885 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
886 factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
887 alternateUsernameAllowed="true"
888 username="bar"
889 password="barpass"
890 ...
891 ...
892&lt;/GlobalNamingResources&gt;
893
894&lt;Context path="/foo"...&gt;
895 ...
896 &lt;ResourceLink
897 name="appDataSource"
898 global="sharedDataSource"
899 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
900 factory="org.apache.naming.factory.DataSourceLinkFactory"
901 username="foo"
902 password="foopass"
903 ...
904&lt;/Context&gt;
905&lt;Context path="/bar"...&gt;
906 ...
907 &lt;ResourceLink
908 name="appDataSource"
909 global="sharedDataSource"
910 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
911 ...
912&lt;/Context&gt;
913</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="../images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div>
914 <p>When a request for <code>getConnection()</code> is made in the <code>/foo</code> context, the request is translated into
915 <code>getConnection("foo","foopass")</code>, while a request in the <code>/bar</code> gets passed straight through.</p>
916 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
917
918 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Transaction"><strong>Transaction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
919
920 <p>You can declare the characteristics of the UserTransaction
921 to be returned for JNDI lookup for <code>java:comp/UserTransaction</code>.
922 You <strong>MUST</strong> define an object factory class to instantiate
923 this object as well as the needed resource parameters as attributes of the
924 <code>Transaction</code>
925 element, and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p>
926
927 <p>The valid attributes for the <code>&lt;Transaction&gt;</code> element
928 are as follows:</p>
929
930 <table border="1" cellpadding="5"><tr><th width="15%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th width="85%" bgcolor="#023264"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><strong><code>factory</code></strong></td><td align="left" valign="center">
931 <p>The class name for the JNDI object factory.</p>
932 </td></tr></table>
933
934 </blockquote></td></tr></table>
935
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