Tomcat JNDI URL support

Enables JNDI URL support for Tomcat. You can configure your applications for different environments like local dev, tests server, integration tests and production.

Tested with Tomcat 7

Building from source

Check out sources

git clone https://github.com/basmussen/tomcat-common.git

Maven build

mvn clean install

Copy the lib to your tomcat instance

cp PROJECT/target/tomcat-common-0.0.1.jar TOMCAT_HOME/lib

Tomcat configuration

Edit your tomcat context.xml vi TOMCAT_HOME/context.xml

Add your resource element to the context file

<Context>
  ...
  <Resource auth="Container" factory="com.benasmussen.jndi.url.URLFactory" 
  name="url/MyUrl" type="java.net.URL" url="file:///your/path/to/file"/>
  ...
</Context>

Tocmat documentation JNDI how-to and JNDI Custom Resource Factory.

Spring 3

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

<jee:jndi-lookup id="myUrl" jndi-name="java:comp/env/url/MyUrl" expected-type="java.net.URL" />

Staying in touch

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License

The project is released under the MIT License.