11.6. WebSphere EJB security

The EJB server and container components provide or give access to many services for the enterprise beans that are deployed into it. The security service is a part of them.

Here, we will describe the WebSphere EJS security service and EJB delegation. Also we will describe how to configure EJB security and demonstrate the delegation situations with our sample program Big3, which you may find in more detail in Appendix E, “Big3 application” on page 1111.

11.6.1. WebSphere EJS security service

EJBs can only be used by EJB clients. There are two general types of EJB clients:

  • HTTP-based clients that interact with the EJB server by using either Java servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSP) by way of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ...

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