| Summary: | role-link tag in web.xml can not be omitted. | ||
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| Product: | Tomcat 5 | Reporter: | Suzuki Yuichiro <suzuki.yuichiro> |
| Component: | Servlet & JSP API | Assignee: | Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 5.5.20 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
This has been fixed in svn and will be included in 5.5.25 and 6.0.14 onwards. |
The application with follwing web.xml can not be deployed. --- <servlet> <servlet-name>sample</servlet-name> <servlet-class>sample.TheServlet</servlet-class> <security-role-ref> <role-name>users</role-name> </security-role-ref> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> .... </servlet-mapping> <security-role> <role-name>users</role-name> </security-role> --- "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't convert argument: null" occurred. The Specification says: --- The security-role-ref element declares the security role reference in a component’s or in a deployment component’s code. It consists of an optional description, the security role name used in the code(role-name), and an optional link to a security role(role-link). --- <role-link> is optional.