Accessing the application's security information

You can access the application's security information at the ViewController layer either through Java code in a managed bean or through Expression Language (EL) in your JSF pages by utilizing the methods available via the oracle.adf.share.security.SecurityContext bean. These methods will allow you to determine whether authorization and/or authentication are enabled in your application, the roles assigned to the authenticated user, whether the user is assigned a specific role, and so on. At the ADF-BC level, security information can be accessed through the methods available in the oracle.jbo.Session.

In this recipe, we will see how to access the application's security information from a ...

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