Entity expansion possible in Wildfly 8.2.0.Final?

[freiser]

Hello,

I want to make certain parts of the web.xml file changeable per deployment-overlay without having to touch the other parts.

A sample of that is the login-configuration section.

Every deployment can have its own setting, but I do not want to have to copy the security-constraint section.

So I use the mechanism of external entities to move the login-config section to a separate file which I can change with the deployment-overlay mechanism.

This is the theory.

In fact it seems not to be able to expand the external entity as I never get the basic login dialog, if I set the auth-method to BASIC in this configuration.

If I insert the same fragment directly in web.xml, then everything works.

Can you help me to get it working?

Regards

Florian

[meetoblivion]

Can you explain what exactly you configured, using XML snippets and relevant file names you changed?

[freiser]

Hello John,

I've done the following to the web.xml:

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC  "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"[

        <!ENTITY login-config SYSTEM "./login-config.xml">

        ]>

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee

   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"

         version="3.0">

    <security-constraint>

        <..snip../>

    </security-constraint>

    <security-role>

        <..snip../>

    </security-role>

    &login-config;

</web-app>

And this is the login-config.xml which is in the same directory:

    <login-config>

        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>

        <realm-name>secure web self-care</realm-name>

    </login-config>