JASPIC 1.1

The Java Authentication SPI for Containers (JASPIC) Specification was developed under JSR 196. This section just gives you an overview of improvements in the API. For more information, the complete document specification can be downloaded from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr349/index.html.

Secure access to forms

Also called JASPI, the JASPIC Specification defines a set of standard interfaces for the development of modules for authentication, which allow secure access to web resources (Servlets, JSP, and so on), among others. Generally speaking, the JASPIC Specification was designed for message-level security; this means that JASPIC modules are called to be integrated into message processing containers and thus, offer a transparent secured mechanism for protocols such as SOAP and HttpServlet.

Implementing an authentication module

In the case where you don't want to use a predefined authentication module, the JASPIC Specification allows you to develop your own modules...