Understanding Your Application’s Security Requirements

As we stated earlier, not all target environments have the same security needs and constraints. However, there are some broad generalities we can make about typical EJB applications. The following list describes some of the common security-related features or aspects:

  • Physically separated tiers

  • User-level access based on username/password

  • Different vendor products used throughout the application

  • Sensitive and nonsensitive data being used

Physically Separated Tiers

A typical EJB application might have three or more physical tiers, all running on separate machines. The Web tier usually is on a server that is placed where Internet or intranet HTTP traffic can reach it. The Application tier usually ...

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