Hello, I'm trying to configure a postgres jndi resource in tomcat that needs to connect via ssl and client certificate for authentication. Unfortunately ... without success. The user is: esrde_aoo and authenticates with a certificate (no password!). Here is the tomcat 8.5.31 (running on jre 1.8.0_152-b16) resource configuration: <Resource type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" name="jdbc/pgrde" url="jdbc:postgresql://test.localhost:5432/esrde?user=esrde_aoo&ssl=true&sslfactory=org.postgresql.ssl.NonValidatingFactory&sslcert=d:/apps/ssl/rde/esrde_aoo.crt&sslkey=d:/apps/ssl/rde/esrde_aoo.key" username="esrde_aoo" /> I tried many many different combination ... it always fails at the second parameter. org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.fatalError Parse Fatal Error at line 21 column 79: The reference to entity "ssl" must end with the ';' delimiter. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/D:/apps/web-data/tam/conf/db-context-ora12.xml; lineNumber: 21; columnNumber: 79; The reference to entity "ssl" must end with the ';' delimiter. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:400) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:327) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1472) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(XMLScanner.java:913) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanAttribute(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1548) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1315) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2784) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:841) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:770) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1521) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig(ContextConfig.java:527) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.contextConfig(ContextConfig.java:465) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:728) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:395) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1140) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1875) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) I would really appreciate some help. Is my connection String correct? Is this a tomcat or java bug? Thank you very much any hint/help! Regards, Didier
