Well, right now I'm running inside Tomcat, but that may have to
change, too. I might have to investigate DriverDataSourceFactory as
Andrus suggested. I'll have to do some more research into this -- I'm
just getting started.
Thanks for the ideas! If you think of any others, I'd love to hear them, too.
/dev/mrg
On 8/10/06, Mike Kienenberger <mkienen..mail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Michael Gentry <blacknex..mail.com> wrote:
> > JNDI is next on my list to look at. I read about it somewhere around
> > 6 months ago, but that was in a Tomcat context and I didn't see
> > anything regarding encryption. Do you have any links/pointers for
> > encrypted JNDI? I hadn't thought about the export issues (I'm very
> > focused on my initial needs), but we could have a simple version for
> > export if we included it (ROT13 anyone?).
>
> JNDI is basically a way to look up a value from a service provider.
> Think of it as a remote hashmap.
>
> So you'd say something like "get the value of 'password' and it'd send
> you the password. How the password is stored in JNDI is
> implementation-dependent.
>
> In your case, you'd really want to ask for a datasource. It's up to
> the application server (generally the JNDI provider) to determine how
> to store the connection info for that database connection. Oracle
> App Server, for example, provides the option of storing the password
> either encrypted or in plain-text.
>
> How each JNDI server works is implementation dependent. So I can't
> really point you to generic encrypted JNDI docs. If you know what
> app server you're using, then you'd simply look up and see what it
> supports.
>
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