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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)

Using Identity Assertion SSO Kerberos in a Microsoft domain


Identity Assertion is a provider mechanism that permits users to trust your identity using a token stored in your machine, by the Simple and Protected Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO). Here, your identity is exchanged with the server by HTTP transaction in silent mode (Single Sign-On) without entering the username and password.

You can use these pages to implement your security in a preexisting context using a predefined structured architecture with users and groups.

In our case, we will analyze a SPNEGO Single Sign-On configuration in a Microsoft domain context using the Kerberos native token and Oracle JRockit JVM embedded with WebLogic Server.

WebLogic Server supports Kerberos tokens even if you install it in a server that is not Microsoft OS-based, for example, Linux OS. This is because the trust relationship will be done by the Oracle WebLogic Server security layer and not by the Operating System.

Windows client needs to be in...