Preface

This guide provides an introduction to Oracle Entitlements Server and describes how to create authorization policies, request authorization decisions and delegate administration using the available application programming interfaces (API). It also contains information regarding the Oracle Entitlements Server policy model, and how to use the API to create policy objects.

Audience

This document is intended for engineers who use Oracle Entitlements Server development tools to control access to an organization's protected resources. This might involve programmatically requesting an authorization decision, creating an authorization or role mapping policy, developing custom Security Modules and Attribute Retrievers, and managing policy objects.

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