How to start Apache Tomcat with PolicyLoader (SecurityManager) | How to write tomcat.policy and server.xml | How to start Tomcat by /etc/rc on Linux or Solaris
How to set up Apache Tomcat with SecurityManager and Policy file. server.xml for Tomcat running with PolicyLoader. How to start up Tomcat by /etc/rc script on UNIX (Linux or Solaris) at a boot time. This article is the How To for setting up Tomcat 3.3 in a secure way. It explains about Java SecurityManager in general, and then about how Policy objects are created within Tomcat. After that, it describes the configuration (server.xml and tomcat.policy) required for enabling Tomcat PolicyLoader. If you run Tomcat on Linux or Solaris, /etc/rc script can start Tomcat automaticaly at a boot time. For such a case, this article also describes the way to start Tomcat as the user other than root.
What is Tomcat 3.3?
Tomcat 3.3 is the de facto standard of Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1 implementation.
Based on the enthusiastic efforts by the cool Apache developers, Tomcat 3.3 provides a very sophisticated modular design, which allows the Servlet container to be customized by adding and removing modules that control the processing of Servlet requests. Now, Tomcat 3.3 gets the significance performance improvements.
By this state-of-art implementation of Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1, our Servlet/JSP can offer better web-based or WAP-based services than ever.
This article is the How To for setting up Tomcat 3.3 in a secure way.
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