Chapter 15. Security

Eric Jendrock

The J2EE application programming model insulates developers from mechanism-specific implementation details of application security. J2EE provides this insulation in a way that enhances the portability of applications, allowing them to be deployed in diverse security environments.

Some of the material in this chapter assumes that you have an understanding of basic security concepts. To learn more about these concepts, we highly recommend that you explore the Security trail in The Java™ Tutorial (see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/security1.2/index.html) before you begin this chapter.

In This Chapter

Overview

Security Roles

Declaring and Linking Role References

Mapping Roles to J2EE Users and Groups ...

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