Chapter 16. Securing Applications in WebSphere

Objectives

This chapter covers the following concepts:

  • How to secure Web components in your application

  • How to secure EJB components in your application

  • How to use the Application Assembly Tool and the Application Server Toolkit to define security roles and references

  • How to manage secure applications after deployment

This chapter discusses how to configure a secured application. A secured application is an application that takes advantage of the Java 2 and J2EE security specifications. This means that a secured application has defined users and roles to isolate unauthorized users from specific methods or segments of code. An application, however, does not have to incorporate the Java 2 Security API; that ...

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