Chapter 9. SECURITY

Topics in this Chapter

  • Servlet Authentication

    • Principals and Roles

    • Declarative Authentication

    • Portability

    • Types of Authentication

  • Basic Authentication

  • Digest Authentication

  • Form-Based Authentication

  • SSL and Client Certificate Authentication

  • Web Application Security Elements

  • Customizing Authentication

    • Resin

    • Tomcat 4.0

  • Programmatic Authentication

Computer security used to be the domain of hackers and their antagonists, but with the advent of the World Wide Web, it's become an issue for the rank and file setting up shop on the net. Because of this growing awareness, software developers today are far more likely to deal with security than were their counterparts of the late 20th century.

Many books have been written about the wide ranging topic ...

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