Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Security Realm

A security realm is a logical container for the various WebLogic Server security entities such as users, groups, security roles, security policies, and security providers. The security realm provides the authentication, authorization, auditing, credential, and role-mapping services to a WebLogic Server deployment. You can have more than one security realm in a domain, but only one of the realms can be the active (default) realm. A security realm is the mechanism WebLogic Server uses to protect its resources. All resources belong to a security realm, and you must define a user in the active security realm in order for that user to be able to access a WebLogic Server resource. The security realm contains the configuration for all ...