<p>I have a self built JSP webapp and at the moment I'm using tomcats built in admin pannel to manage user accounts (that are stored in tomcats config xml files) but this is limited because i can not create new accounts from within the web-app (eg. I can not have a sign up website) and need to manually create the accounts. </p>

<p>What is the most straight forward way of implementing accounts in a tomcat environment?</p>

<p>dennis</p>

Set up a
database realm in Tomcat
, either a simple JDBC realm or a DataSource realm that will allow for connection pooling. Then adding users is a very simple CRUD web application, possibly combined with some confirmation emails.