They are created in the same way as JAR files - but with a different
extensions.
All the tools that work with JAR's work with WAR's

-----Original Message-----
From: Amrhein, Thomas [mailto:tamrhein@debis.com]
Sent: 24 March 2000 14:38
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: AW: User Authorization


.war files are Web ARchives I think, some kind of zipped files. I never
handled with it.
Need to try.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: John Coonrod [mailto:jc@thp.org]
Gesendet am: Freitag, 24. März 2000 14:34
An: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Betreff: RE: User Authorization

Thomas - I don't really know it. I found a reference to "web application" in

the servlet api

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/index.html

and it said the information "may be in the .war file"

I did find some .war files, but they are not text files, so I'm mystified
who to interact with them.

===== Original Message from tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org at 3/24/00 3:00
am
>I want to test user authentication, but I don't know yet what the
>Servlet API Specification exactly says.
>
>I can define users in conf/tomcat-users.xml.
>How and where are roles defined?
>How are roles assigned to JSPs, servlets or servlet contexts?
>
>Does anybody know?
>Where can I find the Servlet API Specification?
>
>thanks
>
>Thomas
>
>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com]
>Gesendet am: Freitag, 24. März 2000 03:54
>An: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>Betreff: Re: User Authorization
>
>John Coonrod wrote:
>
>> This is another question that a lot of people have asked in the past week
>> and I don't feel has been answered...
>>
>> Does the tomcat webserver support user login and - if so - how exactly do
>I
>> get it to work? I'm willing to live with the simplest possible login, but
>I
>> want the server to require it, not each servlet or jsp.
>>
>
>Tomcat 3.0 does not support user authentication.
>
>Tomcat 3.1beta1 (well, at least the most recent nightly builds, but I'm
>pretty
>sure it was there in the beta) has *experimental* support for user
>authentication.  What you do is set up users in the "conf/tomcat-users.xml"
>file, and then define your security constraints in the web application
>deployment descriptor, as described in the Servlet API Specification.  This
>has
>not been extensively tested, and there's no further docs at this point.
>Experimentation and bug reports are welcome!
>
>Craig
>
>
>
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