You may want to take a look at tomcat valves: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027136#4027136 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4027136