Summary


Geronimo offers a complete J2EE 1.4 standards-compliant security implementation. It supports JACC and JAAS through services and GBeans This chapter described the Geronimo security architecture and how to configure the server to use JAAS login configurations, LoginModules, and how to leverage JACC with pluggable policy components. These configurations were shown using Geronimo’s GBean components. Some more advanced configurations, such as LoginModule chaining, were covered. The discussion also covered the plan’s security deployment descriptor, used to protect and secure your applications.

Security is one of the most critical aspects of application server administration. Understanding how to properly configure the security and have your applications correctly leverage the security configuration are critical to protecting your resources and intellectual property. This chapter covered in detail the Geronimo security model, related concepts, and techniques. You can now be confident in applying them when configuring security for your applications.




Professional Apache Geronimo
Professional Apache Geronimo (Wrox Professional Guides)
ISBN: 0471785431
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 148

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