The Definitive Guide to Security in Jakarta EE: Securing Java-based Enterprise Applications with Jakarta Security, Authorization, Authentication and More

© Arjan Tijms, Teo Bais, and Werner Keil 2022

A. Tijms et al.The Definitive Guide to Security in Jakarta EEhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7945-8_1

1. Security History

Arjan Tijms¹  , Teo Bais² and Werner Keil³

(1)

AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

(2)

Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

(3)

Bad Homburg vdH, Hessen, Germany

 

This chapter describes the history of security in Jakarta EE, starting from its early conception and ending where we are today at the moment of writing. We’ll take a look at how the security APIs themselves evolved, how various frameworks were created in response to restrictions and shortcomings in Jakarta EE security APIs, and who some of the people were that were involved in this. Note that we’ll be mostly using the term ...