Application security
Application security enables security for the applications in your environment, providing application isolation and authentication requirements.
In WAS V6.1 administrative security and application security each can be enabled separately.
Administrative security is enabled, by default. Application security is disabled, by default.
To enable application security, enable administrative security. Application security is in effect only when administrative security is enabled.
An Application Server Enablement Tag, which is specific to WAS, is imported into the IOR to indicate if application security is disabled for the server where the object lives.
This tag is server-specific and enables clients to know when application security is disabled at the target server of its request.
For Web resources, when application security is enabled, security constraints on those resources in web.xml are enforced. When accessing a protected resource, a web client is prompted for authentication.
For enterprise bean resources, when application security is disabled, the client CSIv2 code ignores the CSIv2 security tags for objects that are unknown system objects. When pure clients see that application security is disabled, these clients prompt for naming lookups, but do not prompt for enterprise bean operations.
Related concepts
Administrative security
Related tasks
Enabling security