Chapter 3. Java 2 Security Architecture
The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another.
—Friedrich Engels
The need to support flexible and fine-grained access control security policies, with extensibility and scalability, called for an improved security architecture. The architecture introduced with the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), 1.2, fulfills this goal. This chapter details why the security architecture changes were needed and then gives an overview of the Java 2 security architecture. The three subsequent chapters provide architecture details. Chapter 4 describes secure class loading, Chapter 5 tells how a security policy is specified and represented, and Chapter 6 tells how the security policy ...
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