Security Annotations and Authorization in GlassFish and the Java EE 5 SDK

Overview

Security is very important in the enterprise environment. In the Java EE 5 / GlassFish environment, one can achieve security using Transport Level Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technologies, authentication and authorization, and Message Level Security (for Web Services in GlassFish only). This paper discusses authentication and authorization, and discusses how to set up the SSL environment in both clients and servers for Enterprise JavaBeans and Web Services.