As a developer, you can define the application roles. However, you don't necessarily know about the users and groups in the organization actually running the application. In the example used in this book, DMC Solutions is building an application that they hope to sell to hundreds of different organizations.
Therefore, when the application is deployed, the application roles must be mapped to the groups of users defined in the organization.
Tip
Enterprise roles or groups?
Enterprise roles and user groups are two names for the same thing. Some identity management systems use the terminology that users are members of groups, and others use the terminology that users are assigned enterprise roles.
Mapping the application to the organization
Integrating your application server with your identity management system (Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, or some other system) is the task of your application server administrator. This procedure is outside the scope of...
