18 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 18.1, "Introduction to Security in Oracle ADF Web Applications"

• Section 18.2, "Specifying the JAZN Resource Provider"

• Section 18.3, "Configuring Authentication Within the web.xml File"

• Section 18.4, "Creating a Login Page"

• Section 18.5, "Creating a Logout Page"

• Section 18.6, "Implementing Authorization Using Oracle ADF Security"

• Section 18.7, "Implementing Authorization Programmatically"