By: Paul Allen and Joseph Bambara, 2008-08-25
To simplify the development process for the enterprise bean provider, the implementation of the security infrastructure is left to the EJB container provider and the task of defining security policies is left to the bean deployer. By avoiding putting hard-coded security policies inside bean code, EJB applications gain flexibility when configuring and reconfiguring security policies for complex enterprise applications. Applications also gain portability across different EJB servers that may use different security mechanisms. Read More