Introduction and Roadmap

This document summarizes the features of the BEA AquaLogic™ Enterprise Security products and presents an overview of the architecture and capabilities of the security services. It provides a starting point for understanding the family of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security products.

The document is intended for all users of the BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security product family, including:

Business analysts
Security architects
Security developers
Application developers
Server and application administrators

The BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security products incorporate many terms and concepts that are defined in the glossary. BEA recommends that you review the terminology to become familiar with the various terms and concepts.

Guide to This Document

This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, outlines the scope of this document.
Overview of BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, describes BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security products, services, features, and functionality.
Architecture Overview, describes the BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security product architecture and its components.
Security Services, describes security services, including auditing, authentication, authorization and role mapping, and credential mapping.
Security Administration, describes policies and how you use the Administration Server to design policies.

Related Information

The BEA corporate web site provides all documentation for BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, including:

WSDL Documentation for the Web Service Interfaces—Provides reference information for the Web Services Interfaces that are part of this release of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security.
Administration and Deployment Guide—Provides step-by-step instructions for performing various administrative tasks.
Integrating ALES with Application Environments—Describes how to integrate AquaLogic Enterprise Security into application environments.
Policy Managers Guide—Describes how to write access control policies for BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, and describes how to import and export policy data.
Installing Security Services Modules—Describes how to install ALES Security Services Modules, including the Web Services Security Service Module.
Developing Security Providers —Describes how to develop custom security providers.
Javadocs for Security Service Provider Interfaces—Provides reference information for the Security Service Provider Interfaces that are part of this release of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security.
Programming Security for Java Applications—Describes how to implement security in Java applications. It include descriptions of the Security Service Application Programming Interfaces and programming instructions for implementing security in Java applications.
Javadocs for Java API—Provides reference information for the Java Application Programming Interfaces that are part of this release of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security.

Introduction

Introduction and Roadmap

Audience and Scope

Guide to This Document

Related Information