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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)

A RESTful and secure EJB component


Java EE 6 not only allows us to package EJBs into their own module, but also to deploy our Beans directly into the WAR module that will use them. We will see how to secure both of these scenarios.

Bean packaged into the WAR module

Often, we don't need to package Enterprise Beans into a separated module; we can collocate them inside the same WAR client module and simplify our application architecture. Now, we will develop a simple EJB that will be injected into the existing MyProtectedServlet class. We will also see the security context to be passed and the configuration we need to do.

Let's start simple; we can code this really simple Stateless Bean with no interface view, as shown in the following code snippet:

package net.lucamasini.security;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;

@Stateless
public class NoInterfaceBeanInWarModule {
    public String echo(String input) {
        return "$"+input+"$";
    }
}

This Java file must be in the same folder containing our...