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WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

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WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Approaching Java security API


Java EE security services provide a robust and easily configurable security mechanism to authenticate users and authorize access to application functions and associated data. To better understand the topics related to security, we will first provide some basic definitions:

Authentication is the process of ensuring that a person is who he claims to be. Authentication is usually performed by checking that a user's login credentials match those stored in a datastore. Login credentials typically consist of a username and password but can also be in the form of an X.509 certificate or one-time password (OTP). The following figure demonstrates the flow of a login process. The end user provides a username and password, which is submitted to the application server. The login module checks the user's details against those stored in a datastore. If the credentials match, the user is logged in; if the credentials do not match, then the login process will fail. Have a...