Thank you for replying.
We discovered something that has allowed us to get JDBCRealm to work. There is
an important piece that is not covered in the developinjava article: a sun-web.xml
configuration file that contains some role-mapping tags.
The example application mentioned at the very bottom of the article does contain
a sun-web.xml file, however, and it was the missing piece in our case.
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