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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE
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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

by Raghavendra Rao K
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
9h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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The SecurityContext API

As we mentioned earlier, the SecurityContext API provides programmatic security. The IdentityStore and authentication mechanisms are like declarative modes for handling security, whereas the SecurityContext API is geared toward more programmatic control for the authentication and authorization mechanisms in the application. This new SecurityContext interface unifies many different security APIs that were scattered across individual Java EE technology specifications.

The SecurityContext object represents all security information that has been gathered on the user who made the current request. An implementation of the SecurityContext API should be provided at runtime as a CDI-managed bean. We can inject SecurityContext ...

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