Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Configuring Entitlements Caching

Both the DefaultAuthorizer (Authorization provider) and the DefautRoleMapper (Role Mapping provider) can perform better when they cache roles and resource data during entitlement lookups.

	NOTE
	You can't configure the cache for the XACML Authorization and Role Mapping providers.

The WebLogic Authorization and Role Mapping providers maintain three caches: the roles, the predicates, and the resources cache. For example, the default number of items stored in the roles cache is 2,000 items. The predicate cache default value is more than enough to cache the predicates of the two security providers. The resources ...