Raymond K. Ng has been a professional software developer for 15 years and has been involved in high-scale enterprise Java development since JDK 1.0. He currently serves as architect and development lead of Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) and serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSR 115 (JACC) and JSR 196. Raymond is a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation and is the holder of multiple patents.
Introduced in 1995, Java has firmly established itself as a mature mainstream programming language for enterprises. The Java platform security model has evolved over the years to meet new requirements, and today enterprise Java developers have a large number of APIs and services to cho...Jul. 9, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,784
Since 2001 when Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) was formally included in the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 platform specification, the J2EE community has been grappling with the issue of JAAS/J2EE integration. On the surface, JAAS seems to be an exc...
