December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
556 pages
12h 29m
English
J2EE Containers are responsible for enforcing access control on component objects and methods. Containers provide two types of security:
Declarative security
Programmatic security
Declarative security is the means by which an application’s security policies can be expressed externally to the application code. At application assembly time, security policies are defined in an application’s deployment descriptor. A deployment descriptor is an XML file which includes a representation of an application’s security requirements, including the application’s security roles, access control, and authentication requirements.
When using declarative security, application developers are free to ...
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