Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE™, Web Services, and Identity Management

Chapter 5. J2EE Security Architecture

Topics in This Chapter

• J2EE Architecture and Its Logical Tiers

• J2EE Security Definitions

• J2EE Security Infrastructure

• J2EE Container-Based Security

• J2EE Component/Tier-Level Security

• J2EE Client Security

• EJB Tier or Business Component Security

• EIS Integration Tier–Overview

• J2EE Architecture–Network Topology

• J2EE Web Services Security–Overview

The J2EE platform provides a multi-tier application infrastructure solution for developing and deploying portable and scalable distributed computing applications. It is essentially a set of Java technologies that can span from the client tier to the presentation tier to the business logic and finally to back-end resources. The J2EE platform is also designed to provide a full-fledged ...