I know it’s a bit late to answer this question, and maybe you already found the solution, but I’m posting the solution I found (after I googled a lot) so it may help a little: Put log4j.properties under WEB-INF\classes of the project as mentioned previously in this thread. Put log4j-xx.jar under WEB-INF\lib Test if log4j … Read more
The short answer is: there’s no standard way to do it. Although Glassfish and JBoss support principal-to-role mappings, JACC does no assume all containers do, and so it delegates the responsibility of keeping those mappings to the JACC provider implementation. From the docs (see: PolicyConfiguration.addToRole method): It is the job of the Policy provider to … Read more
Tomcat is just a servlet container, i.e. it implements only the servlets and JSP specification. Glassfish and JBoss are full Java EE servers (including stuff like EJB, JMS, …), with Glassfish being the reference implementation of the latest Java EE 6 stack, but JBoss in 2010 was not fully supporting it yet.