15.3. What’s new in WebSphere V3.5 security
The underlying WebSphere security architecture and model are virtually unchanged from V3.02. However, there have been some enhancements in V3.5 that are of interest:
Performance has been improved from the previous version. In a development benchmark, application performance was degraded only 10%-12% with security enabled. While this is only a single data point and results will certainly vary depending on application characteristics and security specifications, it does give evidence that security overhead has been reduced. Two performance enhancements worth mentioning are:
- LTPA/LDAP authentication information is now cached by WebSphere.
- An unnecessary security check was eliminated. The check was being ...
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