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 ALES product family, including business analysts, security architects, security developers, application developers, and administrators.

Guide to This Document

Overview of BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, describes ALES products, services, features, and functionality.
Architecture Overview, describes the ALES product architecture and 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

WSDL Documentation for the Web Service Interfaces—Provides reference information for the ALES Web Services Interfaces.
Policy Managers Guide—Describes how to write and manage security policies for ALES.
SSM Installation and Colinfiguration Guide—Describes how to install ALES Security Services Modules.
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.
Programming Security for Java Applications—Describes how to implement ALES security in Java applications.
Javadocs for Java API—Provides reference information for the ALES Java Application Programming Interfaces.

Introduction

Introduction and Roadmap

Audience and Scope

Guide to This Document

Related Information