Java Security Handbook

Introduction

To many programmers, Java is the language of choice for developing Web-based applications and Enterprise services. Java's initial appeal stemmed from its support of applets and the extensive API provided with version 1.0 of the Java Development Kit (JDK). This appeal was extended by Netscape's LiveConnect, which allows applets to be scripted using JavaScript, by language improvements in the version 1.1 JDK, and by numerous features that were added in the version 1.1 API. These improvements include JavaBeans, which provides a mechanism for developing both GUI and non-GUI components, Java remote method invocation (RMI), which provides a foundation for distributed object communication, and JDBC, which adds database connectivity to Java ...