Chapter 5. EJB Security

No enterprise solution is complete without the ability to model business processes and perform transactions. These transactions may use existing, or legacy, systems or newly developed applications and databases. J2EE provides the EJB model for simplified development and deployment of high-performance transactional programs called enterprise beans. In particular, WASs specialize in providing containers for deploying and executing enterprise beans. For business applications to progress from small-scale endeavors to the demands of enterprisewide solutions, the development of EJB objects is usually adopted to model the business processes. As with all enterprise transaction processing, security is a key consideration.

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