J2EE Security for Servlets, EJBs, and Web Services - Softcover

Kumar, Pankaj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131402641 ISBN 13: 9780131402645

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

Dealing with security issues continues to be challenging for programmers and developers. In this book, expert practitioner Pankaj Kumar walks through both the descriptions and resolutions of those security issues that Java professionals will run into while designing, building, deploying and operating solutions that use J2EE technologies - such as Servlets, EJBs and Web Services. Unlike most books on security, Kumar covers security concepts such as authentication, authorization, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation in the context of security standards, Java APIs and software products implementing these technologies, while demonstrating how to use these in creating solutions.

About this title

About the Author

PANKAJ KUMAR is Software Architect at Hewlett-Packard's Web Services Management Organization and has worked extensively in the area of middleware and security. He has presented on Java and Web services technologies at events ranging from SD West and SD Forum to HP World.

From the Back Cover

J2EE developers have an extraordinary array of powerful options for securing their Web services, Web applications, EJB components and RMI objects. Now, expert Java architect Pankaj Kumar helps developers make sense of Java's increasingly rich security APIs, tools, patterns, and best practices-showing how to use each of them in the right place, at the right time, and in the right way.

Kumar covers every significant J2SE and J2EE security mechanism, presenting practical implementation techniques for the entire J2EE project lifecycle: analysis, design, development, deployment and operations. The book's example-rich coverage includes:

• Implementing cryptography with the JCA (Java Cryptography Architecture) and JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) security APIs
• Building PKI systems with Java: implementing X.509 certificates, Certification Authorities, Certificate Revocation Lists, and repositories
• Java security managers, policy files, and JAAS: implementing access control based on code origin, code signer and user credentials
• Securing the wire: Using SSL and the JSSE API to secure data exchange over unprotected networks
• Ensuring XML message integrity, authentication, and confidentiality with the standards: XML Signature & XML Encryption using the VeriSign TSIK, and Infomosaic SecureXML libraries
• Addressing security issues in RMI-based distributed applications
• Developing and deploying servlets and EJBs for authenticated and secure access
• Securing Web services with transport- and message-based security: SSL for transport-based and WS Security for message-based security
• Covering security aspects of best-of-breed products: Apache Tomcat, Apache Axis, and BEA WebLogic Server.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131402641
• ISBN 13: 9780131402645
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464