Security Interoperability
The security interoperability requirements for EJB 2.0 and J2EE 1.3 are based on Conformance Level 0 of the Common Secure Interoperability version 2 (CSIv2) Specification from the OMG.
The goal of security interoperability for EJB is to provide support for propagating security context information from one J2EE container to another during an invocation of a request for service. The target server needs the security context information to authenticate and authorize the request for the user. Another goal is to support standard security technologies that are part of almost every enterprise, including X.509 certificate-based public key mechanisms and Kerberos-based secret key mechanisms.
Security Interoperability Between ...
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