30 Adding Security to an Application

This chapter describes how to use Oracle ADF Security in your web application to handle authentication and authorization on the Oracle Application Server. It also describes how to bypass Oracle ADF Security when you want to work strictly with container-managed security.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Section 30.1, "Introduction to Security in Oracle ADF Web Applications"

• Section 30.2, "Specifying the JAZN Resource Provider"

• Section 30.3, "Configuring Authentication Within the web.xml File"

• Section 30.4, "Configuring the ADF Business Components Application to Use Container-Managed Security"

• Section 30.5, "Creating a Login Page"

• Section 30.6, "Creating a Logout Page"

• Section 30.7, "Implementing Authorization Using Oracle ADF Security"

• Section 30.8, "Implementing Authorization Programmatically"