Access to a Tomcat Realm

Question

HI! I am trying to get the following code to run, but I still get a nullpointer exception.
This code is in a servlets init method, and should be loaded on tomcats startup.
Server server = ServerFactory.getServer();
//Note, this assumes the Container is "Catalina"
Service service = server.findService("Catalina");
Engine engine = (Engine) service.getContainer();
Host host = (Host) engine.findChild(engine.getDefaultHost());
//Note, this assumes your context is "myContext"
Context context = (Context) host.findChild("myContext");
Realm realm = context.getRealm();I've set the privileged parameter in the webapp/webcontent/meta-inf/context.xml file.
Why I could'nt access this classes?? Where is my misstake?
Thank you for your answer!

Answer 1

Yeah, it looks like we may have to alter the client code to basically pass their login via a "form"....but we'd rather not do that.
BTW, this is a SOAP server we'll building...so not only would it been a real pain to alter the client's XML output (and therefore our corresponding remote method), but the login data would be even more in plain view.
:: still searching for a wildard possibility ::