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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

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Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials

Overview of this book

With ADF, Oracle gives you the chance to use the powerful tool used by Oracle's own developers. Modern enterprise applications must be user-friendly, visually attractive, and fast performing. Oracle Fusion Applications are just that; but to get the desired output you need proven methods to use this powerful and flexible tool to achieve success in developing your enterprise applications. "Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" explains all you need to know in order to build good-looking, user-friendly applications on a completely free technology stack. It explains the highly productive, declarative development approach that will literally have your application running within a few hours, as well as how to use Java to add business logic. "Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials" tells you how to develop and deploy web application applications based on the highly productive and free Oracle ADF Essentials framework. You will first learn how to build business services on top of database tables, and then how to easily build a web application using these services. You will see how to visually design the flow through your application with ADF task flows, and how to use Java programming to implement business logic. Using this book, you can start building and deploying advanced web applications on a robust, free platform quickly. Towards the end, you will be ready to build real-world ADF Essentials applications and will be able to consider yourself an ADF Essentials journeyman.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Securing an ADF Essentials Application

You have developed the functionality of your ADF Essentials application, but you probably don't want every feature to be available to everybody. To ensure that only the right users get access to the right information, you need authentication (to identify the user of the application) and authorization (to control what each user is allowed to do).

If you are running the full version of ADF on WebLogic, the ADF framework offers a comprehensive set of security features. However, since we are running ADF Essentials on GlassFish, we will need another solution.

The Java technology stack offers the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS), but this solution is rather complex and not very popular among developers. Instead, in this chapter, we will implement Apache Shiro security for our application.