Creating a Custom Security Provider

There are times when application needs demand the use of a customer security provider. As each security provider was described in the previous chapter, a mention was made of situations that require a custom security provider. The first step is deciding which type of custom provider you need.

The weblogic.security.spi package contains classes for custom security providers to implement and extend. There's an interface here for every kind of provider in the WebLogic Server security framework, including AdjudicatorProvider, AuthenticationProvider, and AuthorizationProviders. All these interfaces extend the SecurityProvider interface. The methods of these interfaces are callback methods that WLS invokes in precise ...

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