Getting additional attributes for logged on users

Hi there, from a servlet, the logged on user is represented by a Principal instance, which has a getName() to get the logon name of that user. In most cases, that is a more or less cryptic name like c.klein or m.scott. Some of our customers like the name of the currently logged on user be di

Re: [OT?] caching DB items in startup listener

Hi, What happens when the DB has problems when the webapp starts? Will the startup fail then? I think doing lazy init is the better approach, when db comes back it will work again after the webapp did start. Mfg Thomas Am 8. April 2021 13:54:46 MESZ schrieb "Berneburg, Cris J. - US" : >Hi F

Re: Setting a Request Attribute from a custom Realm

Tim, On 4/8/21 09:11, Tim K wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 3:43 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: You can't, using the existing API. You might be able to do it with some nasty ThreadLocal solution, but I think you are stuck without resorting to legerdemain. -chris

Re: [OT?] caching DB items in startup listener

Cris, On 4/8/21 07:54, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote: Hi Folks I'm working on an old legacy app and noticed something. It caches a bunch of info (lookup table data) from the database using a ServletContextListener. I think opening DB connections in a listener is reasonable. While there is

Re: Setting a Request Attribute from a custom Realm

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 3:43 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > You can't, using the existing API. > > You might be able to do it with some nasty ThreadLocal solution, but I > think you are stuck without resorting to legerdemain. > > -chris Would it be possible to imple

[OT?] caching DB items in startup listener

Hi Folks I'm working on an old legacy app and noticed something. It caches a bunch of info (lookup table data) from the database using a ServletContextListener. I think opening DB connections in a listener is reasonable. While there is no business logic in the listener, I'm not sure doing a

Re: Tomcat 9.0

Hi, On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:25 AM Mohamed Eliyas Abdul Kadar < mohamed.ka...@neogenomics.com> wrote: > Hi All > I am planning to use Tomcat for my development server. Initially we > planned to go with version Tomcat 9.0.41. Now I see newer versions are > release on top of that and see the latest