Chapter 10. Integrating Web Containers

IN THIS CHAPTER

This chapter describes the steps for integrating a third party Web container into the JBoss application server framework. A Web container is a J2EE server component that enables access to servlets and JSP pages. Example servlet containers include Tomcat and Jetty.

Integrating a servlet container into JBoss consists of mapping web-app.xml JNDI information into the JBoss JNDI namespace using an optional jboss-web.xml descriptor as well as delegating authentication and authorization to the JBoss security layer. The org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer class exists to simplify these tasks. The focus of the first part of this chapter is ...

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