Java Authentication and Authorization Service

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Java Authentication and Authorization Service, or JAAS, pronounced "Jazz", is a Java security framework for user-centric security to augment the Java code-based security. Since Java Runtime Environment 1.4 JAAS has been integrated with the JRE - previously JAAS was supplied as an extension library by Sun.

[edit] See also

• Apache Ki
• Enterprise_JavaBean#Security EJB Container-Managed Security
• jGuard ( a JAAS implementation)

[edit] External links

• JAAS home page
• JAAS Tutorial 1
• JAAS Tutorial 2
• (English) jGuard : open source project which can secure standalone or web applications based on JAAS