Wednesday December 04, 2002
JAAS vs. Container-Managed Security
I'm digging into JAAS this afternoon as I enjoy the vacancy of the Winter Break at DU's Penrose Library. Man, what a great school - I used to love it when we'd get off 6 weeks for Christmas Break - from Thanksgiving through January - how sweet is that!?
The reason I'm writing on this cold (32°F) afternon is to get some thoughts on JAAS in web applications. I'm giving it about a paragraph of coverage, explaining that it's mainly for declaring authentication and authorization in policy files. Furthermore, it's only invoked when running your application (or Tomcat) with a security manager. However, it's not really needed in web applications because 1) container-managed/web.xml is good enough, and 2) authentication mechanisms never really need to be that fine-grained. Whaddya think? Am I wrong, does it deserve more coverage? Don't most app servers use JAAS under the covers?
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at Dec 04 2002, 10:19:06 AM MST
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