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GlassFish Administration

By : Xuekun Kou
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GlassFish Administration

By: Xuekun Kou

Overview of this book

To build a powerful production environment for your Java EE systems, you need a great application server, and the skills to manage it. This book gives you all that you are looking for. This book will help you gain the necessary skills to install, configure, tune, and troubleshoot GlassFish so that you can fully unleash its power. It will teach you how to use the GlassFish application server, with a special focus on administration tasks. It presents the GlassFish administrative tasks in a logical sequence, with each chapter focusing on a specific topic. Starting with installation and moving through configuration, this book takes a careful look at the administration console so that you get a complete understanding of GlassFish and its administrative features. It will help you understand how to deploy Java EE, Ruby on Rails and other supported applications to GlassFish, and how to configure the necessary resources for these applications. You will also learn how to maintain, tune, and troubleshoot your GlassFish server. Also includes a bonus chapter introducing Glassfish v3.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
GlassFish Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Understanding security features in GlassFish


Besides being fully compliant with the Java EE security model, the GlassFish Server also supports several additional capabilities. Overall, the GlassFish Server's security features include the following:

  • Full compliance with the Java EE security model.

  • Supports multiple authentication realms, and supports customized realm.

  • Supports both declarative and programmatic security configuration.

  • Supports Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) pluggable authorization (JSR-155).

  • Supports message-level security for web service components.

  • Supports single sign-on across all GlassFish Server applications within a single security domain.

  • Supports Programmatic logins.

In the following sections, we will discuss the security features of the GlassFish Server, and we will also introduce necessary utilities and tools which can be used to configure these security features. First, let's see how we can manage user authentication in GlassFish.

Configuring user...