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  <!ENTITY project SYSTEM "project.xml">
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<document url="context.html">

  &project;

  <properties>
    <author email="craigmcc@apache.org">Craig R. McClanahan</author>
    <title>The Context Container</title>
  </properties>

<body>


<section name="Introduction">

  <p>The <strong>Context</strong> element represents a <em>web
  application</em>, which is run within a particular virtual host.
  Each web application is based on a <em>Web Application Archive</em>
  (WAR) file, or a corresponding directory containing the corresponding
  unpacked contents, as described in the Servlet Specification (version
  2.2 or later).  For more information about web application archives,
  you can download the
  <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html">Servlet
  Specification</a>, and review the Tomcat
  <a href="../appdev/index.html">Application Developer's Guide</a>.</p>

  <p>The web application used to process each HTTP request is selected
  by Catalina based on matching the longest possible prefix of the
  Request URI against the <em>context path</em> of each defined Context.
  Once selected, that Context will select an appropriate servlet to
  process the incoming request, according to the servlet mappings defined
  in the <em>web application deployment descriptor</em> file (which MUST
  be located at <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> within the web app's
  directory hierarchy).</p>

  <p>You may define as many <strong>Context</strong> elements as you
  wish.  Each such Context MUST have a unique context path. In
  addition, a Context must be present with a context path equal to
  a zero-length string.  This Context becomes the <em>default</em>
  web application for this virtual host, and is used to process all
  requests that do not match any other Context's context path.</p>

  <p><b>For Tomcat 6, unlike Tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended to place
  &lt;Context&gt; elements directly in the server.xml file.</b> This
  is because it makes modifing the <strong>Context</strong> configuration
  more invasive since the main <code>conf/server.xml</code> file cannot be
  reloaded without restarting Tomcat.</p>

  <p><strong>Context</strong> elements may be explicitly defined:
  <ul>
  <li>in the <code>$CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml</code> file: 
  the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps</li>
  <li>in the 
  <code>$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default</code>
  file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that
  host</li>
  <li>in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the
  <code>$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/</code> directory.
  The name of the file (less the .xml extension) will be used as the
  context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g.
  <code>context#path.xml</code>. The default web application may be defined
  by using a file called <code>ROOT.xml</code>.</li>
  <li>if the previous file was not found for this application, in an individual
  file at <code>/META-INF/context.xml</code> inside the application files</li>
  <li>inside a <a href="host.html">Host</a> element in the main
  <code>conf/server.xml</code></li>
  </ul>
  </p>

  <p>In addition to explicitly specified Context elements, there are
  several techniques by which Context elements can be created automatically
  for you.  See <a href="host.html#Automatic Application Deployment">
  Automatic Application Deployment</a> and
  <a href="host.html#User Web Applications">User Web Applications</a>
  for more information.</p>

    <blockquote><em>
    <p>The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_HOME
    to refer to the directory into which you have installed Tomcat 6,
    and is the base directory against which most relative paths are
    resolved.  However, if you have configured Tomcat 6 for multiple
    instances by setting a CATALINA_BASE directory, you should use
    $CATALINA_BASE instead of $CATALINA_HOME for each of these
    references.</p>
    </em></blockquote>

</section>


<section name="Attributes">

  <subsection name="Common Attributes">

    <p>All implementations of <strong>Context</strong>
    support the following attributes:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="backgroundProcessorDelay" required="false">
        <p>This value represents the delay in seconds between the 
        invocation of the backgroundProcess method on this context and 
        its child containers, including all wrappers. 
        Child containers will not be invoked if their delay value is not 
        negative (which would mean they are using their own processing 
        thread). Setting this to a positive value will cause 
        a thread to be spawn. After waiting the specified amount of time, 
        the thread will invoke the backgroundProcess method on this host 
        and all its child containers. A context will use background 
        processing to perform session expiration and class monitoring for
        reloading. If not specified, the default value for this attribute is 
        -1, which means the context will rely on the background processing 
        thread of its parent host.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="className" required="false">
        <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must
        implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Context</code> interface.
        If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="cookies" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want cookies to be used for
        session identifier communication if supported by the client (this
        is the default).  Set to <code>false</code> if you want to disable
        the use of cookies for session identifier communication, and rely
        only on URL rewriting by the application.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="crossContext" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want calls within this application
        to <code>ServletContext.getContext()</code> to successfully return a
        request dispatcher for other web applications running on this virtual
        host.  Set to <code>false</code> (the default) in security
        conscious environments, to make <code>getContext()</code> always
        return <code>null</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="docBase" required="true">
        <p>The <em>Document Base</em> (also known as the <em>Context
        Root</em>) directory for this web application, or the pathname
        to the web application archive file (if this web application is
        being executed directly from the WAR file). You may specify
        an absolute pathname for this directory or WAR file, or a pathname
        that is relative to the <code>appBase</code> directory of the
        owning <a href="host.html">Host</a>.</p>
        <p>The value of this field must not be set when the Context is
        configured using a <code>META-INF/context.xml</code> file as it will be
        inferred by the automatic deployment process.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="override" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> to have explicit settings in this
        Context element override any corresponding settings in the
        <a href="defaultcontext.html">DefaultContext</a> element associated
        with our owning <a href="host.html">Host</a>.  By default, settings
        in the DefaultContext element will be used.</p>
        <p>If a symbolic link is used for docBase then changes to the
        symbolic link will only be effective after a Tomcat restart or
        by undeploying and redeploying the conext. A context reload is not
        sufficient.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="privileged" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> to allow this context to use container
        servlets, like the manager servlet. Use of the <code>privileged</code>
        attribute will change the context's parent class loader to be the
        <em>Server</em> class loader rather than the <em>Shared</em> class
        loader. Note that in a default installation, the <em>Common</em> class
        loader is used for both the <em>Server</em> and the <em>Shared</em>
        class loaders.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="path" required="false">
        <p>The <em>context path</em> of this web application, which is
        matched against the beginning of each request URI to select the
        appropriate web application for processing.  All of the context paths
        within a particular <a href="host.html">Host</a> must be unique.
        If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are
        defining the <em>default</em> web application for this Host, which
        will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts.</p>
        <p>The value of this field must not be set except when statically
        defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be inferred from the
        filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="reloadable" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want Catalina to monitor classes in
        <code>/WEB-INF/classes/</code> and <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> for
        changes, and automatically reload the web application if a change
        is detected.  This feature is very useful during application
        development, but it requires significant runtime overhead and is
        not recommended for use on deployed production applications.  That's
        why the default setting for this attribute is <i>false</i>.  You
        can use the <a href="../manager-howto.html">Manager</a> web
        application, however, to trigger reloads of deployed applications
        on demand.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="wrapperClass" required="false">
        <p>Java class name of the <code>org.apache.catalina.Wrapper</code>
        implementation class that will be used for servlets managed by this
        Context.  If not specified, a standard default value will be used.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Standard Implementation">

    <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Context</strong> is
    <strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext</strong>.
    It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
    common attributes listed above):</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="allowLinking" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, symlinks will be
        allowed inside the web application, pointing to resources outside the
        web application base path. If not specified, the default value
        of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p>
        <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform
        (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem),
        as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code
        disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="antiJARLocking" required="false">
        <p>If true, the Tomcat classloader will take extra measures to avoid
        JAR file locking when resources are accessed inside JARs through URLs.
        This will impact startup time of applications, but could prove to be useful
        on platforms or configurations where file locking can occur.
        If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="antiResourceLocking" required="false">
        <p>If true, Tomcat will prevent any file locking.
        This will significantly impact startup time of applications, 
        but allows full webapp hot deploy and undeploy on platforms 
        or configurations where file locking can occur.
        If not specified, the default value is <code>false</code>.</p>
   
        <p>Please note that setting this to <code>true</code> has some side effects,
        including the disabling of JSP reloading in a running server: see
        <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37668">Bugzilla 37668</a>.
        </p>

        <p>
        Please note that setting this flag to true in applications that are
        outside the appBase for the Host (the <code>webapps</code> directory
        by default) will cause the application to be
        <strong>deleted</strong> on Tomcat shutdown.  You probably don't want to
        do this, so think twice before setting antiResourceLocking=true on a webapp
        that's outside the appBase for its Host.
        </p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="cacheMaxSize" required="false">
        <p>Maximum size of the static resource cache in kilobytes. 
        If not specified, the default value is <code>10240</code>
        (10 megabytes).</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="cacheTTL" required="false">
        <p>Amount of time in milliseconds between cache entries revalidation.
        If not specified, the default value is <code>5000</code> 
        (5 seconds).</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="cachingAllowed" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the cache for static
        resources will be used. If not specified, the default value
        of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="caseSensitive" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, all case sensitivity
        checks will be disabled. If not 
        specified, the default value of the flag is <code>true</code>.</p>
        <p><b>NOTE: This flag MUST NOT be set to false on the Windows platform
        (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem),
        as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code
        disclosure, among other security problems.</b></p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="processTlds" required="false">
        <p>Whether the context should process TLDs on startup.  The default
        is true.  The false setting is intended for special cases
        that know in advance TLDs are not part of the webapp.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="swallowOutput" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the bytes output to
        System.out and System.err by the web application will be redirected to
        the web application logger. If not specified, the default value
        of the flag is <code>false</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="tldNamespaceAware" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the TLD files
        XML validation will be namespace-aware.  If you turn this flag on,
        you should probably also turn <code>tldValidation</code> on.  The
        default value for this flag is <code>false</code>, and setting it
        to true will incur a performance penalty.
        </p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="tldValidation" required="false">
        <p>If the value of this flag is <code>true</code>, the TLD files
        will be XML validated on context startup.  The default value for
        this flag is <code>false</code>, and setting it to true will incur
        a performance penalty.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="unloadDelay" required="false">
        <p>Amount of ms that the container will wait for servlets to unload.
        If not specified, the default value of the flag is <code>2000</code> 
        ms.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="unpackWAR" required="false">
        <p>If true, Tomcat will unpack all compressed web applications before
        running them.
        If not specified, the default value is <code>true</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="useNaming" required="false">
        <p>Set to <code>true</code> (the default) to have Catalina enable a
        JNDI <code>InitialContext</code> for this web application that is
        compatible with Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform
        conventions.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="workDir" required="false">
        <p>Pathname to a scratch directory to be provided by this Context
        for temporary read-write use by servlets within the associated web
        application.  This directory will be made visible to servlets in the
        web application by a servlet context attribute (of type
        <code>java.io.File</code>) named
        <code>javax.servlet.context.tempdir</code> as described in the
        Servlet Specification.  If not specified, a suitable directory
        underneath <code>$CATALINA_HOME/work</code> will be provided.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>


</section>


<section name="Nested Components">

  <p>You can nest at most one instance of the following utility components
  by nesting a corresponding element inside your <strong>Context</strong>
  element:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="loader.html"><strong>Loader</strong></a> -
      Configure the web application class loader that will be used to load
      servlet and bean classes for this web application.  Normally, the
      default configuration of the class loader will be sufficient.</li>
  <li><a href="manager.html"><strong>Manager</strong></a> -
      Configure the session manager that will be used to create, destroy,
      and persist HTTP sessions for this web application.  Normally, the
      default configuration of the session manager will be sufficient.</li>
  <li><a href="realm.html"><strong>Realm</strong></a> -
      Configure a realm that will allow its
      database of users, and their associated roles, to be utilized solely
      for this particular web application.  If not specified, this web
      application will utilize the Realm associated with the owning
      <a href="host.html">Host</a> or <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>.</li>
  <li><a href="resources.html"><strong>Resources</strong></a> -
      Configure the resource manager that will be used to access the static
      resources associated with this web application.  Normally, the
      default configuration of the resource manager will be sufficient.</li>
  <li><strong>WatchedResource</strong> - The auto deployer will monitor the 
      specified static resource of the web application for updates, and will
      reload the web application if is is updated. The content of this element
      must be a string.</li>
  </ul>

</section>


<section name="Special Features">


  <subsection name="Logging">

    <p>A context is associated with the 
       <code>org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[enginename].[hostname].[path]</code>
       log category.  Note that the brackets are actually part of the name, don't omit them.</p>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Access Logs">

    <p>When you run a web server, one of the output files normally generated
    is an <em>access log</em>, which generates one line of information for
    each request processed by the server, in a standard format.  Catalina
    includes an optional <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> implementation that
    can create access logs in the same standard format created by web servers,
    or in any number of custom formats.</p>

    <p>You can ask Catalina to create an access log for all requests
    processed by an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>,
    <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or <a href="context.html">Context</a>
    by nesting a <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> element like this:</p>

<source>
&lt;Context path="/examples" ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
         prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
         pattern="common"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>See <a href="valve.html#Access Log Valve">Access Log Valve</a>
    for more information on the configuration attributes that are
    supported.</p>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Automatic Context Configuration">

    <p>If you use the standard <strong>Context</strong> implementation,
    the following configuration steps occur automtically when Catalina
    is started, or whenever this web application is reloaded.  No special
    configuration is required to enable this feature.</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="loader.html">Loader</a>
       element, a standard web application class loader will be configured.
       </li>
    <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="manager.html">Manager</a>
        element, a standard session manager will be configured.</li>
    <li>If you have not declared your own <a href="resources.html">Resources</a>
        element, a standard resources manager will be configured.</li>
    <li>The web application properties listed in <code>conf/web.xml</code>
        will be processed as defaults for this web application.  This is used
        to establish default mappings (such as mapping the <code>*.jsp</code>
        extension to the corresponding JSP servlet), and other standard
        features that apply to all web applications.</li>
    <li>The web application properties listed in the
        <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> resource for this web application
        will be processed (if this resource exists).</li>
    <li>If your web application has specified security constraints that might
        require user authentication, an appropriate Authenticator that
        implements the login method you have selected will be configured.</li>
    </ul>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Context Parameters">

    <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the
    web application as servlet context initialization parameters by nesting
    <code>&lt;Parameter&gt;</code> elements inside this element.  For
    example, you can create an initialization parameter like this:</p>
<source>
&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Parameter name="companyName" value="My Company, Incorporated"
         override="false"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
    web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):
    </p>
<source>
&lt;context-param&gt;
  &lt;param-name&gt;companyName&lt;/param-name&gt;
  &lt;param-value&gt;My Company, Incorporated&lt;/param-value&gt;
&lt;/context-param&gt;
</source>
    <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor
    to customize this value.</p>

    <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;Parameter&gt;</code> element
    are as follows:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="description" required="false">
        <p>Optional, human-readable description of this context
        initialization parameter.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="name" required="true">
        <p>The name of the context initialization parameter to be created.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="override" required="false">
        <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want
        a <code>&lt;context-param&gt;</code> for the same parameter name,
        found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the
        value specified here.  By default, overrides are allowed.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="value" required="true">
        <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application
        when requested by calling
        <code>ServletContext.getInitParameter()</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Environment Entries">

    <p>You can configure named values that will be made visible to the
    web application as environment entry resources, by nesting
    <code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> entries inside this element.  For
    example, you can create an environment entry like this:</p>
<source>
&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Environment name="maxExemptions" value="10"
         type="java.lang.Integer" override="false"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
    web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):
    </p>
<source>
&lt;env-entry&gt;
  &lt;env-entry-name&gt;maxExemptions&lt;/param-name&gt;
  &lt;env-entry-value&gt;10&lt;/env-entry-value&gt;
  &lt;env-entry-type&gt;java.lang.Integer&lt;/env-entry-type&gt;
&lt;/env-entry&gt;
</source>
    <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment descriptor
    to customize this value.</p>

    <p>The valid attributes for an <code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> element
    are as follows:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="description" required="false">
        <p>Optional, human-readable description of this environment entry.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="name" required="true">
        <p>The name of the environment entry to be created, relative to the
        <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="override" required="false">
        <p>Set this to <code>false</code> if you do <strong>not</strong> want
        an <code>&lt;env-entry&gt;</code> for the same environment entry name,
        found in the web application deployment descriptor, to override the
        value specified here.  By default, overrides are allowed.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="type" required="true">
        <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web application
        for this environment entry.  Must be one of the legal values for
        <code>&lt;env-entry-type&gt;</code> in the web application deployment
        descriptor:  <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>,
        <code>java.lang.Byte</code>, <code>java.lang.Character</code>,
        <code>java.lang.Double</code>, <code>java.lang.Float</code>,
        <code>java.lang.Integer</code>, <code>java.lang.Long</code>,
        <code>java.lang.Short</code>, or <code>java.lang.String</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="value" required="true">
        <p>The parameter value that will be presented to the application
        when requested from the JNDI context.  This value must be convertable
        to the Java type defined by the <code>type</code> attribute.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Lifecycle Listeners">

    <p>If you have implemented a Java object that needs to know when this
    <strong>Context</strong> is started or stopped, you can declare it by
    nesting a <strong>Listener</strong> element inside this element.  The
    class name you specify must implement the
    <code>org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener</code> interface, and
    the class must be packaged in a jar and placed in the 
    <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> directory. 
    It will be notified about the occurrence of the corresponding
    lifecycle events.  Configuration of such a listener looks like this:</p>

<source>
&lt;Context path="/examples" ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Listener className="com.mycompany.mypackage.MyListener" ... &gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>Note that a Listener can have any number of additional properties
    that may be configured from this element.  Attribute names are matched
    to corresponding JavaBean property names using the standard property
    method naming patterns.</p>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Request Filters">

    <p>You can ask Catalina to check the IP address, or host name, on every
    incoming request directed to the surrounding
    <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or
    <a href="context.html">Context</a> element.  The remote address or name
    will be checked against a configured list of "accept" and/or "deny"
    filters, which are defined using the Regular Expression syntax supported
    by the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/">Jakarta Regexp</a>
    regular expression library.  Requests that come from locations that are
    not accepted will be rejected with an HTTP "Forbidden" error.
    Example filter declarations:</p>

<source>
&lt;Context path="/examples" ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve"
         allow="*.mycompany.com,www.yourcompany.com"/&gt;
  &lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
         deny="192.168.1.*"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>See <a href="valve.html#Remote Address Filter">Remote Address Filter</a>
    and <a href="valve.html#Remote Host Filter">Remote Host Filter</a> for
    more information about the configuration options that are supported.</p>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Resource Definitions">

    <p>You can declare the characteristics of the resource
    to be returned for JNDI lookups of <code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</code> and
    <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> elements in the web application
    deployment descriptor.  You <strong>MUST</strong> also define
    the needed resource parameters as attributes of the <code>Resource</code> 
    element, to configure the object factory to be used (if not known to Tomcat 
    already), and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p>

    <p>For example, you can create a resource definition like this:</p>
<source>
&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB" auth="Container"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
     description="Employees Database for HR Applications"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>This is equivalent to the inclusion of the following element in the
    web application deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>):</p>
<source>
&lt;resource-ref&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;Employees Database for HR Applications&lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;res-ref-name&gt;jdbc/EmployeeDB&lt;/res-ref-name&gt;
  &lt;res-ref-type&gt;javax.sql.DataSource&lt;/res-ref-type&gt;
  &lt;res-auth&gt;Container&lt;/res-auth&gt;
&lt;/resource-ref&gt;
</source>

    <p>but does <em>not</em> require modification of the deployment
    descriptor to customize this value.</p>

    <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;Resource&gt;</code> element
    are as follows:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="auth" required="false">
        <p>Specify whether the web Application code signs on to the
        corresponding resource manager programatically, or whether the
        Container will sign on to the resource manager on behalf of the
        application.  The value of this attribute must be
        <code>Application</code> or <code>Container</code>.  This
        attribute is <strong>required</strong> if the web application
        will use a <code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</code> element in the web
        application deployment descriptor, but is optional if the
        application uses a <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> instead.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="description" required="false">
        <p>Optional, human-readable description of this resource.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="name" required="true">
        <p>The name of the resource to be created, relative to the
        <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="scope" required="false">
        <p>Specify whether connections obtained through this resource
        manager can be shared.  The value of this attribute must be
        <code>Shareable</code> or <code>Unshareable</code>.  By default,
        connections are assumed to be shareable.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="type" required="true">
        <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web
        application when it performs a lookup for this resource.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>


  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Resource Links">

     <p>This element is used to create a link to a global JNDI resource. Doing
     a JNDI lookup on the link name will then return the linked global 
     resource.</p>

    <p>For example, you can create a resource link like this:</p>
<source>
&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;ResourceLink name="linkToGlobalResource"
            global="simpleValue"
            type="java.lang.Integer"
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;
</source>

    <p>The valid attributes for a <code>&lt;ResourceLink&gt;</code> element
    are as follows:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="global" required="true">
        <p>The name of the linked global resource in the 
        global JNDI context.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="name" required="true">
        <p>The name of the resource link to be created, relative to the
        <code>java:comp/env</code> context.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="type" required="true">
        <p>The fully qualified Java class name expected by the web
        application when it performs a lookup for this resource link.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>

  <subsection name="Transaction">

    <p>You can declare the characteristics of the UserTransaction
    to be returned for JNDI lookup for <code>java:comp/UserTransaction</code>. 
    You <strong>MUST</strong> define an object factory class to instantiate
    this object as well as the needed resource parameters as attributes of the 
    <code>Transaction</code> 
    element, and the properties used to configure that object factory.</p>

    <p>The valid attributes for the <code>&lt;Transaction&gt;</code> element
    are as follows:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="factory" required="true">
        <p>The class name for the JNDI object factory.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>

</section>


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