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_2

2. Jakarta EE Foundations

Arjan Tijms¹  , Teo Bais² and Werner Keil³

(1)

AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

(2)

Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

(3)

Bad Homburg vdH, Hessen, Germany

 

Quite some history to reach the current state, right? That being said, you might be wondering at this moment “why this much history” or “why is security so fundamental to our applications.” Well, we will cover everything related to the rationale of this book in this chapter. Besides, we will have a look at the foundations of enterprise security.

First things first, why does a term like security sound that broad?

We could ...