January 26, 2005
Okay, so Tomcat 5 has some neat tricks I didn’t know about! Using the Web.xml file, you can declare a database to check for username/password/role, and provide access to resources as defined elsewhere in the web.xml file.
Only of interest to geeks, but quite clever really. You can even specify the MessageDigest algorithm used to hash a password. Will have a play and see how well it works…
