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5.1.6: Relationship to the operating environment

This section discusses how Application Server security relates to the security provided by your operating system and by Java.

WebSphere Application Server security sits on top of your operating system security and the security features provided by other components, including the Java language.

The types of security involved include:

  • Operating-system security support, for example, authentication against, the local user registry.
  • Java-language security, provided through the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) used by WebSphere and the programmatic security classes.
  • CORBA security, in applications involve interprocess communication between secure ORBs.
  • EJB security, in applications involving Enterprise Java Beans.
  • WebSphere security, which relies on and enhances all of the above.

See the Sun Microsystems Enterprise JavaBeans specification, Version 1.1, for a description of enterprise bean security in general.

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