Re: [OT] RE: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-12 Thread Li
Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I did few hack, the major problem is I need instantiate classloader, but WebappClassLoader is not instantiated by itself, it always failed so far. Do you know any recommendable resource so that I can read up? On 6/12/07, Peter Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

RE: [OT] RE: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-12 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Path 1. Make an independent classloader which extends URLClassLoader > Path 2. Modify WebappClassLoader > Path 3. As the classloading doc mentioned, configure > customized loader which > is located in shared folder > > I had tried Path 3 and it never gets m

Re: [OT] RE: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-12 Thread Li
Hi all, Thanks for you guys last time regarding my boss 'funky' idea for software protection. Since I am still his employee and a responsible developer, I am still planning to finish up this task. Now i am at in the forest which got a bit lost. Let me clarify again what I am going to achieve: 1.

[OT] RE: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-11 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As a developer, sometimes it's difficult to decide whether > should follow my heart or boss ... If you're thinking that regularly, it's probably time to find a new boss... - Peter ---

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Li
Hi thanks all you guys' comments. I agree with Filip's words that we should spend more time on doing statis secure analysis, codes refine and bug fixing instead of building a castle. Thanks Kristian but unfortunately it is not that possible to persuade my boss accept your suggestion. Thanks Davi

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread David kerber
Kristian Rink wrote: David kerber schrieb: ... hardware failures won't cause problems. If they move to a completely new machine, but you politely post a nag screen that says something to the effect "New hardware detected; please contact Mycompany within 30 days for a new license", then that'

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Kristian Rink
David kerber schrieb: ... > hardware failures won't cause problems. If they move to a completely > new machine, but you politely post a nag screen that says something to > the effect "New hardware detected; please contact Mycompany within 30 > days for a new license", then that's not likely to off

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread David kerber
Mark H. Wood wrote: As others have noted, this may be doable but it's the wrong approach. You are trying to solve a legal problem with information technology. It is very rare for such an approach to accomplish much, other than to irritate customers who are behaving properly. MAC address is a par

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
As others have noted, this may be doable but it's the wrong approach. You are trying to solve a legal problem with information technology. It is very rare for such an approach to accomplish much, other than to irritate customers who are behaving properly. MAC address is a particularly poor choice:

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread David Tonhofer
Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: Li wrote: Our company is going to deploy a system externally. In order to prevent illegal deployment by our customer to other tomcat in case. My boss asked me to embed our license ID into the tomcat by building our own tomcat. I had done several work such as creating

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Kristian Rink
[Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:29:45 +0800] > Our company is going to deploy a system externally. In order to > prevent illegal deployment by our customer to other tomcat in case. Why do you want to keep people from deploying your application to another tomcat installation? Do you

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Li wrote: Our company is going to deploy a system externally. In order to prevent illegal deployment by our customer to other tomcat in case. My boss asked me to embed our license ID into the tomcat by building our own tomcat. I had done several work such as creating a manager for our customi

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
I would consider your license and mac id work to be a waste of time. If they want to crack your software, they will. Instead just attach your company's software license to it. Instead spend the time building the application so good that they will want to buy it from you, and buy support for it a

Re: Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
it sounds rather sick :-) I mean, if you secure and deploy your customized tomcat version, how does it prevent the "pirate" from simply putting your webapp in a vanilla tomcat? regards Leon On 6/8/07, Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, Our company is going to deploy a system externally. In

Embed license to tomcat

2007-06-08 Thread Li
Hi guys, Our company is going to deploy a system externally. In order to prevent illegal deployment by our customer to other tomcat in case. My boss asked me to embed our license ID into the tomcat by building our own tomcat. I had done several work such as creating a manager for our customized