9.4. Authentication summary

The following diagram is a summary of the authentication mechanisms for the different kind of clients (the term clients here is used in the most general way).

Figure 9-8. Authentication mechanisms overview

At the bottom of this diagram are the different types of clients. These programs can implement EJB clients to access the EJBs.

At the top of the diagram are two containers provided by the application server: the Web container and the EJB container. The clients try to access the assets served by the containers (HTML pages, servlet, JSPs, EJBs).

At the center of the diagram are the authentication mechanisms.

The ...

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