JBoss World 2012 Session–Trusted Security with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
It’s been a few weeks since I have posted any updates. I started a new project at the beginning of June; it always takes a few weeks to get up to speed on an extended project. Integrating the IBM Tivoli Security stack and JBoss EAP was the subject of my JBoss World 2012 presentation.
Securing The JBoss JAAS Subject Reader Application with J2EE Security
This article continues the J2EE Security Series from the past few months. Here we expand the Simple J2EE Web Application that was introduced in this article to use J2EE Security.
Dumping the contents of a JAAS Subject
In the last article, JAAS was introduced. An authenticated calling-entity (perhaps a user), has a JAAS Subject. This JAAS Subject contains some combination of Principals, Public Credentials, and Private Credentials. It can be very helpful to dump the contents of this JAAS Subject for debugging…
JAAS Authentication — An Introduction
This article introduces JAAS authentication via a relatively simple example. The example presented here is based upon the Sun tutorial of the same subject. The thinkmiddleware.com example extends the tutorial to use LDAP to authenticate users.
An Openldap Directory Server
The recent JNDI article and an upcoming JAAS article require an LDAP server. This tutorial will walk through the basic details of reproducing the Openldap Server used in these two articles.
JNDI — Java Naming & Directory Interface
While researching an upcoming JAAS article, the decision was made to use JNDI to interact with the Openldap server that was stored user information. JNDI is used extensively in the J2EE landscape; so, exploring JNDI separately from JAAS seemed in order.