Security Guide
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
for use with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
Edition 5.2.0
Anil Saldhana
Jaikiran Pai
Jared Morgan
Joshua Wulf
Marcus Moyses
Peter Skopek
Stephan Mueller
Edited by
Eva Kopalova
Edited by
Petr Penicka
Edited by
Russell Dickenson
Edited by
Scott Mumford
Abstract
The Security Guide is aimed at System Administrators and Developers, and explains how to implement security in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 and its patch releases. The guide covers Java EE Declarative Security; an introduction to Java Authentication and Authorization Service; the Security Model, and Extension Architecture; managing and configuring Security Domains; replacing clear text passwords with masks in configuration files, and using SSL to secure Remote Method Invocation of EJBs.