Introduction

This document primarily intended for administrators who are responsible for configuring the ALES components, integrating ALES into application environments, managing interaction between an applications and ALES, and securing application resources.

The topics in this document are relevant during the staging, production deployment, and production use phases of a software project. For links to other ALES documentation and resources, see Related Documentation.

It is assumed that readers understand Web technologies and have a general understanding of the Microsoft Windows or UNIX operating system being used. Prior to using this document, you should have a general understanding of ALES’s principal components and architecture. Read the Introduction to BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security for conceptual information that is helpful in understanding how the product works. This document provides information about integrating ALES with application environments and defining policies to secure application resources.

Guide to this Document

Related Documentation

For information about other aspects of AquaLogic Enterprise Security, see the following documents:

Getting Started Tutorials—This guide provides tutorials on installing ALES 3.0 and securing applications.
Introduction to BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security—This document provides overview, conceptual, and architectural information for AquaLogic Enterprise Security.
Administration Server Installation Guide—This document describes installation of the ALES Administration Server.
SSM Installation and Configuration Guide—This document describes installing and configuring Security Service Modules for AquaLogic Enterprise Security.
Policy Managers Guide—This document defines the ALES policy model and describes how to generate, import and export policy data.
Administration Reference—This document describe how to write custom security provider extensions, describes how to extend the AuditContext interface, and describes how to use the Custom Extensions API
Programming Security for Java Applications—This document describes how to implement security in Java applications. It includes descriptions of the security service Application Programming Interfaces and programming instructions.
Programming Security for Web Services—This document describes how to implement security in web servers. It includes descriptions of the Web Services Application Programming Interfaces.
Developing Security Providers—This document provides security vendors and security and application developers with the information needed to develop custom security providers.
API Documentation—API documentation can be accessed under API Reference on the ALES documentation’s main page.

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