| 1 | <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Apache Tomcat Configuration Reference - The Context Container</title><meta value="Craig R. McClanahan" name="author"><meta value="craigmcc@apache.org" name="email"></head><body vlink="#525D76" alink="#525D76" link="#525D76" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td><!--PROJECT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt=" | 
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| 3 |   " align="right" src="../../images/tomcat.gif"></a></td><td><font face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><h1>Apache Tomcat 6.0</h1></font></td><td><!--APACHE LOGO--><a href="http://www.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt="Apache Logo" align="right" src="../../images/asf-logo.gif"></a></td></tr></table><table cellspacing="4" width="100%" border="0"><!--HEADER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><tr><!--RIGHT SIDE MAIN BODY--><td align="left" valign="top" width="80%"><table cellspacing="4" width="100%" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><h1>Apache Tomcat Configuration Reference</h1><h2>The Context Container</h2></td><td nowrap="true" valign="top" align="right"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 4 |  | 
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| 5 |     <blockquote><em> | 
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| 6 |     <p>The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_BASE to refer the | 
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| 7 |     base directory against which most relative paths are resolved. If you have | 
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| 8 |     not configured Tomcat 6 for multiple instances by setting a CATALINA_BASE | 
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| 9 |     directory, then $CATALINA_BASE will be set to the value of $CATALINA_HOME, | 
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| 10 |     the directory into which you have installed Tomcat 6.</p> | 
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| 11 |     </em></blockquote> | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 |   <p>The <strong>Context</strong> element represents a <em>web | 
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| 14 |   application</em>, which is run within a particular virtual host. | 
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| 15 |   Each web application is based on a <em>Web Application Archive</em> | 
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| 16 |   (WAR) file, or a corresponding directory containing the corresponding | 
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| 17 |   unpacked contents, as described in the Servlet Specification (version | 
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| 18 |   2.2 or later).  For more information about web application archives, | 
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| 19 |   you can download the | 
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| 20 |   <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html">Servlet | 
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| 21 |   Specification</a>, and review the Tomcat | 
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| 22 |   <a href="../../appdev/index.html">Application Developer's Guide</a>.</p> | 
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| 23 |  | 
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| 24 |   <p>The web application used to process each HTTP request is selected | 
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| 25 |   by Catalina based on matching the longest possible prefix of the | 
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| 26 |   Request URI against the <em>context path</em> of each defined Context. | 
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| 27 |   Once selected, that Context will select an appropriate servlet to | 
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| 28 |   process the incoming request, according to the servlet mappings defined | 
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| 29 |   in the <em>web application deployment descriptor</em> file (which MUST | 
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| 30 |   be located at <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> within the web app's | 
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| 31 |   directory hierarchy).</p> | 
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| 32 |  | 
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| 33 |   <p>You may define as many <strong>Context</strong> elements as you | 
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| 34 |   wish.  Each such Context MUST have a unique context path. In | 
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| 35 |   addition, a Context must be present with a context path equal to | 
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| 36 |   a zero-length string.  This Context becomes the <em>default</em> | 
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| 37 |   web application for this virtual host, and is used to process all | 
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| 38 |   requests that do not match any other Context's context path.</p> | 
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| 39 |  | 
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| 40 |   <p><b>For Tomcat 6, unlike Tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended to place | 
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| 41 |   <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file.</b> This | 
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| 42 |   is because it makes modifing the <strong>Context</strong> configuration | 
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| 43 |   more invasive since the main <code>conf/server.xml</code> file cannot be | 
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| 44 |   reloaded without restarting Tomcat.</p> | 
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| 45 |  | 
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| 46 |   <p><strong>Context</strong> elements may be explicitly defined: | 
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| 47 |   <ul> | 
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| 48 |   <li>in the <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml</code> file:  | 
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| 49 |   the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps</li> | 
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| 50 |   <li>in the  | 
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| 51 |   <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default</code> | 
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| 52 |   file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that | 
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| 53 |   host</li> | 
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| 54 |   <li>in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the | 
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| 55 |   <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/</code> directory. | 
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| 56 |   The name of the file (less the .xml extension) will be used as the | 
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| 57 |   context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. | 
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| 58 |   <code>context#path.xml</code>. The default web application may be defined | 
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| 59 |   by using a file called <code>ROOT.xml</code>.</li> | 
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| 60 |   <li>if the previous file was not found for this application, in an individual | 
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| 61 |   file at <code>/META-INF/context.xml</code> inside the application files</li> | 
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| 62 |   <li>inside a <a href="host.html">Host</a> element in the main | 
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| 63 |   <code>conf/server.xml</code></li> | 
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| 64 |   </ul> | 
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| 65 |   </p> | 
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| 66 |  | 
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| 67 |   <p>With the exception of server.xml, files that define <strong>Context | 
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| 68 |   </strong> elements may only define a single <strong>Context</strong> element. | 
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| 69 |   </p> | 
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| 70 |  | 
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| 71 |   <p>In addition to explicitly specified Context elements, there are | 
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| 72 |   several techniques by which Context elements can be created automatically | 
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| 73 |   for you.  See <a href="host.html#Automatic Application Deployment"> | 
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| 74 |   Automatic Application Deployment</a> and | 
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| 75 |   <a href="host.html#User Web Applications">User Web Applications</a> | 
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| 76 |   for more information.</p> | 
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| 77 |  | 
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| 78 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 79 |  | 
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| 80 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Common Attributes"><strong>Common Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 81 |  | 
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| 82 |     <p>All implementations of <strong>Context</strong> | 
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| 83 |     support the following attributes:</p> | 
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| 84 |  | 
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| 85 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>backgroundProcessorDelay</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 86 |         <p>This value represents the delay in seconds between the  | 
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| 87 |         invocation of the backgroundProcess method on this context and  | 
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| 88 |         its child containers, including all wrappers.  | 
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| 89 |         Child containers will not be invoked if their delay value is not  | 
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| 90 |         negative (which would mean they are using their own processing  | 
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| 91 |         thread). Setting this to a positive value will cause  | 
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| 92 |         a thread to be spawn. After waiting the specified amount of time,  | 
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| 93 |         the thread will invoke the backgroundProcess method on this host  | 
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| 94 |         and all its child containers. A context will use background  | 
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| 95 |         processing to perform session expiration and class monitoring for | 
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| 96 |         reloading. If not specified, the default value for this attribute is  | 
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| 97 |         -1, which means the context will rely on the background processing  | 
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| 98 |         thread of its parent host.</p> | 
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| 99 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>className</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 100 |         <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must | 
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| 101 |         implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Context</code> interface. | 
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| 102 |         If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p> | 
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| 103 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>cookies</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 104 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want cookies to be used for | 
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| 105 |         session identifier communication if supported by the client (this | 
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| 106 |         is the default).  Set to <code>false</code> if you want to disable | 
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| 107 |         the use of cookies for session identifier communication, and rely | 
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| 108 |         only on URL rewriting by the application.</p> | 
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| 109 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>crossContext</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 110 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want calls within this application | 
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| 111 |         to <code>ServletContext.getContext()</code> to successfully return a | 
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| 112 |         request dispatcher for other web applications running on this virtual | 
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| 113 |         host.  Set to <code>false</code> (the default) in security | 
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| 114 |         conscious environments, to make <code>getContext()</code> always | 
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| 115 |         return <code>null</code>.</p> | 
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| 116 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>docBase</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 117 |         <p>The <em>Document Base</em> (also known as the <em>Context | 
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| 118 |         Root</em>) directory for this web application, or the pathname | 
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| 119 |         to the web application archive file (if this web application is | 
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| 120 |         being executed directly from the WAR file). You may specify | 
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| 121 |         an absolute pathname for this directory or WAR file, or a pathname | 
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| 122 |         that is relative to the <code>appBase</code> directory of the | 
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| 123 |         owning <a href="host.html">Host</a>.</p> | 
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| 124 |         <p>The value of this field must not be set when the Context is | 
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| 125 |         configured using a <code>META-INF/context.xml</code> file as it will be | 
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| 126 |         inferred by the automatic deployment process.</p> | 
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| 127 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>override</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 128 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> to have explicit settings in this | 
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| 129 |         Context element override any corresponding settings in the | 
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| 130 |         <a href="defaultcontext.html">DefaultContext</a> element associated | 
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| 131 |         with our owning <a href="host.html">Host</a>.  By default, settings | 
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| 132 |         in the DefaultContext element will be used.</p> | 
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| 133 |         <p>If a symbolic link is used for docBase then changes to the | 
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| 134 |         symbolic link will only be effective after a Tomcat restart or | 
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| 135 |         by undeploying and redeploying the conext. A context reload is not | 
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| 136 |         sufficient.</p> | 
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| 137 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>privileged</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 138 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> to allow this context to use container | 
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| 139 |         servlets, like the manager servlet. Use of the <code>privileged</code> | 
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| 140 |         attribute will change the context's parent class loader to be the | 
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| 141 |         <em>Server</em> class loader rather than the <em>Shared</em> class | 
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| 142 |         loader. Note that in a default installation, the <em>Common</em> class | 
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| 143 |         loader is used for both the <em>Server</em> and the <em>Shared</em> | 
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| 144 |         class loaders.</p> | 
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| 145 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>path</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 146 |         <p>The <em>context path</em> of this web application, which is | 
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| 147 |         matched against the beginning of each request URI to select the | 
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| 148 |         appropriate web application for processing.  All of the context paths | 
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| 149 |         within a particular <a href="host.html">Host</a> must be unique. | 
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| 150 |         If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are | 
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| 151 |         defining the <em>default</em> web application for this Host, which | 
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| 152 |         will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts.</p> | 
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| 153 |         <p>The value of this field must not be set except when statically | 
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| 154 |         defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be inferred from the | 
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| 155 |         filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.</p> | 
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| 156 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>reloadable</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 157 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want Catalina to monitor classes in | 
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| 158 |         <code>/WEB-INF/classes/</code> and <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> for | 
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| 159 |         changes, and automatically reload the web application if a change | 
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| 160 |         is detected.  This feature is very useful during application | 
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| 161 |         development, but it requires significant runtime overhead and is | 
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| 162 |         not recommended for use on deployed production applications.  That's | 
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| 163 |         why the default setting for this attribute is <i>false</i>.  You | 
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| 164 |         can use the <a href="../../manager-howto.html">Manager</a> web | 
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| 165 |         application, however, to trigger reloads of deployed applications | 
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| 166 |         on demand.</p> | 
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| 167 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>wrapperClass</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 168 |         <p>Java class name of the <code>org.apache.catalina.Wrapper</code> | 
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| 169 |         implementation class that will be used for servlets managed by this | 
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| 170 |         Context.  If not specified, a standard default value will be used.</p> | 
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| 171 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 172 |  | 
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| 173 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 174 |  | 
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| 175 |  | 
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| 176 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Standard Implementation"><strong>Standard Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 177 |  | 
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| 178 |     <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Context</strong> is | 
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| 179 |     <strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext</strong>. | 
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| 180 |     It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the | 
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| 181 |     common attributes listed above):</p> | 
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| 182 |  | 
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| 183 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>allowLinking</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 184 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, symlinks will be | 
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| 185 |         allowed inside the web application, pointing to resources outside the | 
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| 186 |         web application base path. If not specified, the default value | 
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| 187 |         of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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| 188 |         <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform | 
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| 189 |         (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem), | 
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| 190 |         as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code | 
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| 191 |         disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p> | 
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| 192 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>antiJARLocking</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 193 |         <p>If true, the Tomcat classloader will take extra measures to avoid | 
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| 194 |         JAR file locking when resources are accessed inside JARs through URLs. | 
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| 195 |         This will impact startup time of applications, but could prove to be useful | 
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| 196 |         on platforms or configurations where file locking can occur. | 
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| 197 |         If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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| 198 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>antiResourceLocking</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 199 |         <p>If true, Tomcat will prevent any file locking. | 
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| 200 |         This will significantly impact startup time of applications,  | 
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| 201 |         but allows full webapp hot deploy and undeploy on platforms  | 
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| 202 |         or configurations where file locking can occur. | 
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| 203 |         If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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| 204 |     | 
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| 205 |         <p>Please note that setting this to <code>true</code> has some side effects, | 
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| 206 |         including the disabling of JSP reloading in a running server: see | 
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| 207 |         <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37668">Bugzilla 37668</a>. | 
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| 208 |         </p> | 
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| 209 |  | 
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| 210 |         <p> | 
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| 211 |         Please note that setting this flag to true in applications that are | 
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| 212 |         outside the appBase for the Host (the <code>webapps</code> directory | 
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| 213 |         by default) will cause the application to be | 
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| 214 |         <strong>deleted</strong> on Tomcat shutdown.  You probably don't want to | 
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| 215 |         do this, so think twice before setting antiResourceLocking=true on a webapp | 
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| 216 |         that's outside the appBase for its Host. | 
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| 217 |         </p> | 
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| 218 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>cacheMaxSize</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 219 |         <p>Maximum size of the static resource cache in kilobytes.  | 
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| 220 |         If not specified, the default value is <code>10240</code> | 
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| 221 |         (10 megabytes).</p> | 
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| 222 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>cacheTTL</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 223 |         <p>Amount of time in milliseconds between cache entries revalidation. | 
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| 224 |         If not specified, the default value is <code>5000</code>  | 
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| 225 |         (5 seconds).</p> | 
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| 226 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>cachingAllowed</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 227 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the cache for static | 
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| 228 |         resources will be used. If not specified, the default value | 
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| 229 |         of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p> | 
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| 230 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>caseSensitive</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 231 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, all case sensitivity | 
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| 232 |         checks will be disabled. If not  | 
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| 233 |         specified, the default value of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p> | 
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| 234 |         <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to false on the Windows platform | 
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| 235 |         (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem), | 
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| 236 |         as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code | 
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| 237 |         disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p> | 
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| 238 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>processTlds</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 239 |         <p>Whether the context should process TLDs on startup.  The default | 
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| 240 |         is true.  The false setting is intended for special cases | 
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| 241 |         that know in advance TLDs are not part of the webapp.</p> | 
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| 242 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>swallowOutput</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 243 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the bytes output to | 
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| 244 |         System.out and System.err by the web application will be redirected to | 
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| 245 |         the web application logger. If not specified, the default value | 
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| 246 |         of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p> | 
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| 247 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>tldNamespaceAware</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 248 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the TLD files | 
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| 249 |         XML validation will be namespace-aware.  If you turn this flag on, | 
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| 250 |         you should probably also turn <code>tldValidation</code> on.  The | 
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| 251 |         default value for this flag is <code>false</code>, and setting it | 
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| 252 |         to true will incur a performance penalty. | 
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| 253 |         </p> | 
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| 254 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>tldValidation</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 255 |         <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the TLD files | 
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| 256 |         will be XML validated on context startup.  The default value for | 
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| 257 |         this flag is <code>false</code>, and setting it to true will incur | 
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| 258 |         a performance penalty.</p> | 
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| 259 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>unloadDelay</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 260 |         <p>Amount of ms that the container will wait for servlets to unload. | 
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| 261 |         If not specified, the default value of the flag is <code>2000</code>  | 
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| 262 |         ms.</p> | 
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| 263 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>unpackWAR</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 264 |         <p>If true, Tomcat will unpack all compressed web applications before | 
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| 265 |         running them. | 
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| 266 |         If not specified, the default value is <code>true</code>.</p> | 
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| 267 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>useNaming</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 268 |         <p>Set to <code>true</code> (the default) to have Catalina enable a | 
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| 269 |         JNDI <code>InitialContext</code> for this web application that is | 
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| 270 |         compatible with Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform | 
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| 271 |         conventions.</p> | 
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| 272 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>workDir</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 273 |         <p>Pathname to a scratch directory to be provided by this Context | 
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| 274 |         for temporary read-write use by servlets within the associated web | 
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| 275 |         application.  This directory will be made visible to servlets in the | 
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| 276 |         web application by a servlet context attribute (of type | 
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| 277 |         <code>java.io.File</code>) named | 
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| 278 |         <code>javax.servlet.context.tempdir</code> as described in the | 
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| 279 |         Servlet Specification.  If not specified, a suitable directory | 
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| 280 |         underneath <code>$CATALINA_BASE/work</code> will be provided.</p> | 
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| 281 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 282 |  | 
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| 283 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 284 |  | 
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| 285 |  | 
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| 286 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Nested Components"><strong>Nested Components</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 287 |  | 
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| 288 |   <p>You can nest at most one instance of the following utility components | 
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| 289 |   by nesting a corresponding element inside your <strong>Context</strong> | 
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| 290 |   element:</p> | 
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| 291 |   <ul> | 
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| 292 |   <li><a href="loader.html"><strong>Loader</strong></a> - | 
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| 293 |       Configure the web application class loader that will be used to load | 
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| 294 |       servlet and bean classes for this web application.  Normally, the | 
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| 295 |       default configuration of the class loader will be sufficient.</li> | 
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| 296 |   <li><a href="manager.html"><strong>Manager</strong></a> - | 
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| 297 |       Configure the session manager that will be used to create, destroy, | 
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| 298 |       and persist HTTP sessions for this web application.  Normally, the | 
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| 299 |       default configuration of the session manager will be sufficient.</li> | 
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| 300 |   <li><a href="realm.html"><strong>Realm</strong></a> - | 
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| 301 |       Configure a realm that will allow its | 
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| 302 |       database of users, and their associated roles, to be utilized solely | 
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| 303 |       for this particular web application.  If not specified, this web | 
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| 304 |       application will utilize the Realm associated with the owning | 
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| 305 |       <a href="host.html">Host</a> or <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>.</li> | 
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| 306 |   <li><a href="resources.html"><strong>Resources</strong></a> - | 
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| 307 |       Configure the resource manager that will be used to access the static | 
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| 308 |       resources associated with this web application.  Normally, the | 
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| 309 |       default configuration of the resource manager will be sufficient.</li> | 
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| 310 |   <li><strong>WatchedResource</strong> - The auto deployer will monitor the  | 
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| 311 |       specified static resource of the web application for updates, and will | 
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| 312 |       reload the web application if is is updated. The content of this element | 
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| 313 |       must be a string.</li> | 
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| 314 |   </ul> | 
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| 315 |  | 
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| 316 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Special Features"><strong>Special Features</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 317 |  | 
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| 318 |  | 
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| 319 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Logging"><strong>Logging</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 320 |  | 
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| 321 |     <p>A context is associated with the  | 
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| 322 |        <code>org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[enginename].[hostname].[path]</code> | 
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| 323 |        log category.  Note that the brackets are actually part of the name, don't omit them.</p> | 
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| 324 |  | 
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| 325 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 326 |  | 
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| 327 |  | 
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| 328 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Access Logs"><strong>Access Logs</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 329 |  | 
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| 330 |     <p>When you run a web server, one of the output files normally generated | 
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| 331 |     is an <em>access log</em>, which generates one line of information for | 
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| 332 |     each request processed by the server, in a standard format.  Catalina | 
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| 333 |     includes an optional <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> implementation that | 
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| 334 |     can create access logs in the same standard format created by web servers, | 
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| 335 |     or in any number of custom formats.</p> | 
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| 336 |  | 
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| 337 |     <p>You can ask Catalina to create an access log for all requests | 
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| 338 |     processed by an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, | 
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| 339 |     <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or <a href="context.html">Context</a> | 
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| 340 |     by nesting a <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> element like this:</p> | 
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| 341 |  | 
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| 342 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 343 | <Context path="/examples" ...> | 
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| 344 |   ... | 
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| 345 |   <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" | 
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| 346 |          prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" | 
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| 347 |          pattern="common"/> | 
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| 348 |   ... | 
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| 349 | </Context> | 
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| 350 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 351 |  | 
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| 352 |     <p>See <a href="valve.html#Access Log Valve">Access Log Valve</a> | 
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| 353 |     for more information on the configuration attributes that are | 
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| 354 |     supported.</p> | 
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| 355 |  | 
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| 356 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 357 |  | 
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| 358 |  | 
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| 359 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Automatic Context Configuration"><strong>Automatic Context Configuration</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 360 |  | 
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| 361 |     <p>If you use the standard <strong>Context</strong> implementation, | 
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| 362 |     the following configuration steps occur automtically when Catalina | 
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| 363 |     is started, or whenever this web application is reloaded.  No special | 
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| 364 |     configuration is required to enable this feature.</p> | 
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| 365 |      | 
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| 366 |     <ul> | 
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| 367 |     <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="loader.html">Loader</a> | 
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| 368 |        element, a standard web application class loader will be configured. | 
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| 369 |        </li> | 
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| 370 |     <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="manager.html">Manager</a> | 
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| 371 |         element, a standard session manager will be configured.</li> | 
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| 372 |     <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="resources.html">Resources</a> | 
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| 373 |         element, a standard resources manager will be configured.</li> | 
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| 374 |     <li>The web application properties listed in <code>conf/web.xml</code> | 
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| 375 |         will be processed as defaults for this web application.  This is used | 
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| 376 |         to establish default mappings (such as mapping the <code>*.jsp</code> | 
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| 377 |         extension to the corresponding JSP servlet), and other standard | 
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| 378 |         features that apply to all web applications.</li> | 
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| 379 |     <li>The web application properties listed in the | 
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| 380 |         <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> resource for this web application | 
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| 381 |         will be processed (if this resource exists).</li> | 
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| 382 |     <li>If your web application has specified security constraints that might | 
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| 383 |         require user authentication, an appropriate Authenticator that | 
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| 384 |         implements the login method you have selected will be configured.</li> | 
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| 385 |     </ul> | 
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| 386 |  | 
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| 387 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 388 |  | 
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| 389 |  | 
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| 390 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Context Parameters"><strong>Context Parameters</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 391 |  | 
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| 392 |     <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the | 
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| 393 |     web application as servlet context initialization parameters by nesting | 
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| 394 |     <code><Parameter></code> elements inside this element.  For | 
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| 395 |     example, you can create an initialization parameter like this:</p> | 
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| 396 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 397 | <Context ...> | 
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| 398 |   ... | 
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| 399 |   <Parameter name="companyName" value="My Company, Incorporated" | 
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| 400 |          override="false"/> | 
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| 401 |   ... | 
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| 402 | </Context> | 
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| 403 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 404 |  | 
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| 405 |     <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the | 
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| 406 |     web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>): | 
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| 407 |     </p> | 
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| 408 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 409 | <context-param> | 
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| 410 |   <param-name>companyName</param-name> | 
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| 411 |   <param-value>My Company, Incorporated</param-value> | 
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| 412 | </context-param> | 
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| 413 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 414 |     <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor | 
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| 415 |     to customize this value.</p> | 
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| 416 |  | 
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| 417 |     <p>The valid attributes for a <code><Parameter></code> element | 
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| 418 |     are as follows:</p> | 
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| 419 |  | 
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| 420 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>description</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 421 |         <p>Optional, human-readable description of this context | 
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| 422 |         initialization parameter.</p> | 
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| 423 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 424 |         <p>The name of the context initialization parameter to be created.</p> | 
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| 425 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>override</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 426 |         <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want | 
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| 427 |         a <code><context-param></code> for the same parameter name, | 
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| 428 |         found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the | 
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| 429 |         value specified here.  By default, overrides are allowed.</p> | 
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| 430 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>value</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 431 |         <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application | 
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| 432 |         when requested by calling | 
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| 433 |         <code>ServletContext.getInitParameter()</code>.</p> | 
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| 434 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 435 |  | 
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| 436 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 437 |  | 
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| 438 |  | 
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| 439 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Environment Entries"><strong>Environment Entries</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 440 |  | 
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| 441 |     <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the | 
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| 442 |     web application as environment entry resources, by nesting | 
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| 443 |     <code><Environment></code> entries inside this element.  For | 
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| 444 |     example, you can create an environment entry like this:</p> | 
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| 445 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 446 | <Context ...> | 
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| 447 |   ... | 
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| 448 |   <Environment name="maxExemptions" value="10" | 
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| 449 |          type="java.lang.Integer" override="false"/> | 
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| 450 |   ... | 
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| 451 | </Context> | 
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| 452 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 453 |  | 
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| 454 |     <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the | 
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| 455 |     web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>): | 
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| 456 |     </p> | 
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| 457 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 458 | <env-entry> | 
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| 459 |   <env-entry-name>maxExemptions</param-name> | 
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| 460 |   <env-entry-value>10</env-entry-value> | 
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| 461 |   <env-entry-type>java.lang.Integer</env-entry-type> | 
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| 462 | </env-entry> | 
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| 463 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 464 |     <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor | 
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| 465 |     to customize this value.</p> | 
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| 466 |  | 
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| 467 |     <p>The valid attributes for an <code><Environment></code> element | 
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| 468 |     are as follows:</p> | 
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| 469 |  | 
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| 470 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>description</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 471 |         <p>Optional, human-readable description of this environment entry.</p> | 
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| 472 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 473 |         <p>The name of the environment entry to be created, relative to the | 
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| 474 |         <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p> | 
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| 475 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>override</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 476 |         <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want | 
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| 477 |         an <code><env-entry></code> for the same environment entry name, | 
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| 478 |         found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the | 
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| 479 |         value specified here.  By default, overrides are allowed.</p> | 
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| 480 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 481 |         <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web application | 
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| 482 |         for this environment entry.  Must be one of the legal values for | 
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| 483 |         <code><env-entry-type></code> in the web application deployment | 
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| 484 |         descriptor:  <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>, | 
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| 485 |         <code>java.lang.Byte</code>, <code>java.lang.Character</code>, | 
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| 486 |         <code>java.lang.Double</code>, <code>java.lang.Float</code>, | 
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| 487 |         <code>java.lang.Integer</code>, <code>java.lang.Long</code>, | 
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| 488 |         <code>java.lang.Short</code>, or <code>java.lang.String</code>.</p> | 
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| 489 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>value</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 490 |         <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application | 
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| 491 |         when requested from the JNDI context.  This value must be convertable | 
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| 492 |         to the Java type defined by the <code>type</code> attribute.</p> | 
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| 493 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 494 |  | 
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| 495 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 496 |  | 
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| 497 |  | 
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| 498 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Lifecycle Listeners"><strong>Lifecycle Listeners</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 499 |  | 
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| 500 |     <p>If you have implemented a Java object that needs to know when this | 
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| 501 |     <strong>Context</strong> is started or stopped, you can declare it by | 
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| 502 |     nesting a <strong>Listener</strong> element inside this element.  The | 
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| 503 |     class name you specify must implement the | 
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| 504 |     <code>org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener</code> interface, and | 
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| 505 |     the class must be packaged in a jar and placed in the  | 
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| 506 |     <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> directory.  | 
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| 507 |     It will be notified about the occurrence of the corresponding | 
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| 508 |     lifecycle events.  Configuration of such a listener looks like this:</p> | 
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| 509 |  | 
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| 511 | <Context path="/examples" ...> | 
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| 512 |   ... | 
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| 513 |   <Listener className="com.mycompany.mypackage.MyListener" ... > | 
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| 514 |   ... | 
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| 515 | </Context> | 
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| 516 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 517 |  | 
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| 518 |     <p>Note that a Listener can have any number of additional properties | 
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| 519 |     that may be configured from this element.  Attribute names are matched | 
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| 520 |     to corresponding JavaBean property names using the standard property | 
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| 521 |     method naming patterns.</p> | 
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| 522 |  | 
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| 523 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 524 |  | 
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| 525 |  | 
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| 526 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Request Filters"><strong>Request Filters</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 527 |  | 
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| 528 |     <p>You can ask Catalina to check the IP address, or host name, on every | 
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| 529 |     incoming request directed to the surrounding | 
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| 530 |     <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or | 
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| 531 |     <a href="context.html">Context</a> element.  The remote address or name | 
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| 532 |     will be checked against a configured list of "accept" and/or "deny" | 
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| 533 |     filters, which are defined using the Regular Expression syntax supported | 
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| 534 |     by the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/">Jakarta Regexp</a> | 
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| 535 |     regular expression library.  Requests that come from locations that are | 
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| 536 |     not accepted will be rejected with an HTTP "Forbidden" error. | 
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| 537 |     Example filter declarations:</p> | 
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| 538 |  | 
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| 539 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 540 | <Context path="/examples" ...> | 
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| 541 |   ... | 
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| 542 |   <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve" | 
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| 543 |          allow="*.mycompany.com,www.yourcompany.com"/> | 
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| 544 |   <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" | 
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| 545 |          deny="192.168.1.*"/> | 
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| 546 |   ... | 
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| 547 | </Context> | 
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| 548 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 549 |  | 
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| 550 |     <p>See <a href="valve.html#Remote Address Filter">Remote Address Filter</a> | 
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| 551 |     and <a href="valve.html#Remote Host Filter">Remote Host Filter</a> for | 
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| 552 |     more information about the configuration options that are supported.</p> | 
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| 553 |  | 
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| 554 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 555 |  | 
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| 556 |  | 
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| 557 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Resource Definitions"><strong>Resource Definitions</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 558 |  | 
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| 559 |     <p>You can declare the characteristics of the resource | 
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| 560 |     to be returned for JNDI lookups of <code><resource-ref></code> and | 
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| 561 |     <code><resource-env-ref></code> elements in the web application | 
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| 562 |     deployment descriptor.  You <strong>MUST</strong> also define | 
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| 563 |     the needed resource parameters as attributes of the <code>Resource</code>  | 
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| 564 |     element, to configure the object factory to be used (if not known to Tomcat  | 
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| 565 |     already), and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p> | 
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| 566 |  | 
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| 567 |     <p>For example, you can create a resource definition like this:</p> | 
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| 568 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 569 | <Context ...> | 
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| 570 |   ... | 
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| 571 |   <Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB" auth="Container" | 
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| 572 |             type="javax.sql.DataSource" | 
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| 573 |      description="Employees Database for HR Applications"/> | 
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| 574 |   ... | 
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| 575 | </Context> | 
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| 576 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 577 |  | 
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| 578 |     <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the | 
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| 579 |     web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):</p> | 
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| 580 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 581 | <resource-ref> | 
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| 582 |   <description>Employees Database for HR Applications</description> | 
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| 583 |   <res-ref-name>jdbc/EmployeeDB</res-ref-name> | 
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| 584 |   <res-ref-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-ref-type> | 
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| 585 |   <res-auth>Container</res-auth> | 
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| 586 | </resource-ref> | 
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| 587 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 588 |  | 
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| 589 |     <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment | 
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| 590 |     descriptor to customize this value.</p> | 
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| 591 |  | 
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| 592 |     <p>The valid attributes for a <code><Resource></code> element | 
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| 593 |     are as follows:</p> | 
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| 594 |  | 
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| 595 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>auth</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 596 |         <p>Specify whether the web Application code signs on to the | 
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| 597 |         corresponding resource manager programatically, or whether the | 
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| 598 |         Container will sign on to the resource manager on behalf of the | 
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| 599 |         application.  The value of this attribute must be | 
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| 600 |         <code>Application</code> or <code>Container</code>.  This | 
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| 601 |         attribute is <strong>required</strong> if the web application | 
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| 602 |         will use a <code><resource-ref></code> element in the web | 
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| 603 |         application deployment descriptor, but is optional if the | 
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| 604 |         application uses a <code><resource-env-ref></code> instead.</p> | 
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| 605 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>description</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 606 |         <p>Optional, human-readable description of this resource.</p> | 
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| 607 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 608 |         <p>The name of the resource to be created, relative to the | 
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| 609 |         <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p> | 
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| 610 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>scope</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 611 |         <p>Specify whether connections obtained through this resource | 
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| 612 |         manager can be shared.  The value of this attribute must be | 
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| 613 |         <code>Shareable</code> or <code>Unshareable</code>.  By default, | 
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| 614 |         connections are assumed to be shareable.</p> | 
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| 615 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 616 |         <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web | 
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| 617 |         application when it performs a lookup for this resource.</p> | 
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| 618 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 619 |  | 
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| 620 |  | 
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| 621 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 622 |  | 
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| 623 |  | 
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| 624 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Resource Links"><strong>Resource Links</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 625 |  | 
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| 626 |      <p>This element is used to create a link to a global JNDI resource. Doing | 
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| 627 |      a JNDI lookup on the link name will then return the linked global  | 
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| 628 |      resource.</p> | 
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| 629 |  | 
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| 630 |     <p>For example, you can create a resource link like this:</p> | 
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| 631 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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| 632 | <Context ...> | 
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| 633 |   ... | 
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| 634 |   <ResourceLink name="linkToGlobalResource" | 
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| 635 |             global="simpleValue" | 
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| 636 |             type="java.lang.Integer" | 
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| 637 |   ... | 
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| 638 | </Context> | 
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| 639 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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| 640 |  | 
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| 641 |     <p>The valid attributes for a <code><ResourceLink></code> element | 
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| 642 |     are as follows:</p> | 
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| 643 |  | 
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| 644 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>global</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 645 |         <p>The name of the linked global resource in the  | 
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| 646 |         global JNDI context.</p> | 
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| 647 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 648 |         <p>The name of the resource link to be created, relative to the | 
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| 649 |         <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p> | 
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| 650 |       </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>type</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 651 |         <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web | 
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| 652 |         application when it performs a lookup for this resource link.</p> | 
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| 653 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 654 |  | 
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| 655 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 656 |  | 
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| 657 |   <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Transaction"><strong>Transaction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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| 658 |  | 
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| 659 |     <p>You can declare the characteristics of the UserTransaction | 
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| 660 |     to be returned for JNDI lookup for <code>java:comp/UserTransaction</code>.  | 
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| 661 |     You <strong>MUST</strong> define an object factory class to instantiate | 
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| 662 |     this object as well as the needed resource parameters as attributes of the  | 
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| 663 |     <code>Transaction</code>  | 
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| 664 |     element, and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p> | 
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| 665 |  | 
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| 666 |     <p>The valid attributes for the <code><Transaction></code> element | 
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| 667 |     are as follows:</p> | 
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| 668 |  | 
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| 669 |     <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>factory</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> | 
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| 670 |         <p>The class name for the JNDI object factory.</p> | 
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| 671 |       </td></tr></table> | 
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| 672 |  | 
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| 673 |   </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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| 674 |  | 
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| 675 | </blockquote></td></tr></table></td></tr><!--FOOTER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><!--PAGE FOOTER--><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font size="-1" color="#525D76"><em> | 
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| 676 |         Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation | 
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| 677 |         </em></font></div></td></tr></table></body></html> | 
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