Harpreet Singh wrote:
> One particular feature that caught my attention was "Each host has its
> own authentication realm". This is supported in Tomcat and not in
> GlassFish.
>
> GlassFish has authentication realm per application (I implemented it
> ages ago, I hope it is still there :-)). Look under
> sun-application*.dtd under the libs/dtd directory.
>
> You could write a custom realm
> (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/appserver/reference/techart/as8_authentication/index.html)
> and configure all your applications on a particular host to use this
> authentication realm and voila you have a realm per host. It is a
> workaround but nevertheless if this is something that you are looking
> for - these steps will simulate it for you.
>
> But then again, realm per application seems more flexible then realm
> per host. ;-)
>
FWIW, Tomcat can have per-application authentication realms as well.
But I would be cautious about drawing any conclusions from this
particular wiki page as it currently stands; one would really want to
cover the several hundred interesting features that application servers
and servlet containers might have instead of cherry picking 16
particular line items -- a quarter of which simply point out that Tomcat
is not a JavaEE 5 server.
> Thanks
> Harpreet
>
Craig
>
>> I have copied the table to the wiki and put a brief intro at the top (it
>> won't hurt my feelings if someone were to edit or totally replace that
>> ;). The page is here:
>>
>> http://www.glassfishwiki.org/gfwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ComparingGlassfishAndT
>> omcat
>>
>> I added a ProductComparisons page, added the link to the left menu bar,
>> and linked to the page above from ProductComparisons. If I've
>> overstepped a bit, please accept my apologies and feel free to correct
>> any abuses. :)
>>
>> Hope that helps out. Thanks Roger for the comparison and letting us use
>> it. :)
>>
>> -----
>> Jason Lee, SCJP
>> Programmer/Analyst
>> http://www.iec-okc.com
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jan.Luehe_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Jan.Luehe_at_Sun.COM] Sent: Friday,
>>> December 01, 2006 1:49 PM
>>> To: roger.keays_at_ninthavenue.com.au
>>> Cc: users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: comparing glassfish with tomcat
>>>
>>> Hi Roger,
>>>
>>> Jan Luehe wrote On 11/30/06 08:57,:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Roger,
>>>>
>>>> roger.keays wrote On 11/29/06 21:50,:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice work on adding support for per-virtual-server realms
>>> in glassfish!
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you're satisfied, could you turn the corresponding
>>> cell in your
>>>>>> comparison table from red to green for GlassFish? :)
>>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that it's a blog dated 30th October and not really
>>>>> meant to
>>>>> be a living document. I added the comment so that people
>>> can see how
>>>>> quickly
>>>>> the glassfish team get these things implemented. I can't,
>>>>> philosophically,
>>>>> go back and change that document but maybe in the future
>>> I'll blog again
>>>
>>>>> about glassfish's virtual hosting features.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Fair enough!
>>>>
>>> one feature that was already supported in GlassFish when you first
>>> published the comparison table is support for alternate docroots (or
>>> virtual directory mappings).
>>>
>>> See
>>>
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/jluehe/entry/new_support_for_virtual_directory
>>>
>>> for details.
>>>
>>> You might want to add this to the original table, or we should add it
>>> to the table that has all the updates.
>>>
>>> This is not supported by Tomcat, BTW.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
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