Chapter 3. Enterprise Java Security Fundamentals
The J2EE platform has achieved remarkable success in meeting enterprise needs, resulting in its widespread adoption. The security infrastructure plays a key role in the e-business strategy of a company. J2EE provides a standard approach to allow enterprise applications to be developed without hard-coded security policies. Instead, declarative policies are bundled with an assembled set of application components. Security policies specified using this security model are enforced in any operational environments and deployed in any of the application servers that host them.
The J2EE security model addresses authentication, authorization, delegation, and data integrity for the components that make up ...
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