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Securing WebLogic Server 12c

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Securing WebLogic Server 12c

Overview of this book

Security is a must in modern Enterprise architecture, and WebLogic implements a very complete and complex architecture for configuration and implementation, and we need to deeply know in technologies, terminology and how the security process works between all actors. Transparent security of your applications and Weblogic infrastructure need a good knowledge of the issues you can incur in this long and error prone configuration process. "Securing WebLogic Server 12c" will simplify a complex world like WebLogic Security, helping the reader to implement and configure. It's the only fast guide that will let you develop and deploy in a production system with best practices both from the development world and the operation world. This book will try to make a clear picture of Java EE Security with clean and simple step-by-step examples that will guide the reader to security implementation and configuration From the concepts of Java EE Security to the development of secure application, from the configuration of a realm to the setup of Kerberos Single Sign on, every concept is expressed in simple terms and surrounded by examples and pictures. Finally, also a way to develop WebLogic Security Providers with Maven, so that you can add the security part of your infrastructure to your enterprise best practices.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


This chapter covered the basic administration of users and groups of the internal WebLogic LDAP server and some facilities to manage and understand security roles and conditions that you will configure in your server.

This is an important chapter, which covers in detail the parameters and concepts required to attach your WebLogic server in an existing Active Directory environment, tuning and understanding some tricks to improve their performance.

We also discussed the issues that often occur during configuration, along with some typical error codes and their possible solutions.