CHAPTER 4
Web Security
In this chapter, I will explain how to apply security at the web layer for Java web-based applications. You will see in detail the inner work of the security filter chain and the different metadata options at your disposal to define security constraints in your application. I will also cover the Taglib facility for enforcing security constraints at the view level.
Introducing the Simple Example Application
In this chapter, you will be working on a dummy test application: an “action movies” web application. The application itself will be very simple. (It won’t have any really useful functionality). However, I will try to ...
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