Introduction to Oracle Platform Security Services

Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) provides a security platform for both Java Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications. As a platform-independent and application-server-independent layer, OPSS expands beyond the application server security providers to include features such as Credential Store Framework, Audit Framework, and User & Role API, which we will review in this chapter. At development time, OPSS services can be directly invoked from the developer environment (for example, Oracle JDeveloper) to help developers create the necessary security artifacts for their applications. In the runtime environment, systems and security administrators can access ...

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