Developing secured applications

 

Developing applications that use programmatic security

For some applications, declarative security is not sufficient to express the security model of the application. Use this topic to develop applications that use programmatic security.

About this taskIBM WebSphere Application Server provides security components that provide or collaborate with other services to provide authentication, authorization, delegation, and data protection. WebSphere Application Server also supports the security features that are described in the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification. An application goes through three stages before it is ready to run:

Most of the security for an application is configured during the assembly stage. The security that is configured during the assembly stage is called declarative security because the security is declared or defined in the deployment descriptors. The declarative security is enforced by the security runtime. For some applications, declarative security is not sufficient to express the security model of the application. For these applications, you can use programmatic security.

 

Procedure

  1. Develop secure Web applications. For more information, see Developing with programmatic security APIs for Web applications .

  2. Develop servlet filters for form login processing. For more information, see Developing servlet filters for form login processing .

  3. Develop form login pages. For more information, see Customizing Web application login .

  4. Develop enterprise bean component applications. For more information, see Developing with programmatic APIs for EJB applications .

  5. Develop with Java Authentication and Authorization Service to log in programmatically. For more information, see Developing programmatic logins with the Java Authentication and Authorization Service .

  6. Develop your own Java 2 security mapping module. For more information, see Configuring programmatic logins for Java Authentication and Authorization Service .

  7. Develop custom user registries. For more information, see Developing custom user registries .

  8. Develop a custom interceptor for trust associations.




 

Sub-topics


Protecting system resources and APIs (Java 2 security)

Developing with programmatic security APIs for Web applications

Developing with programmatic APIs for EJB applications

 

Related concepts


Web component security
Enterprise bean component security
Trust associations
Java Authentication and Authorization Service
J2EE connector security

 

Related tasks


Developing programmatic logins with the Java Authentication and Authorization Service
Developing extensions to the WebSphere security infrastructure

Related reference

Customization of a server-side Java Authentication and Authorization Service authentication and login configuration
J2C principal mapping modules