Enabling ADF security

Enabling security for an ADF Fusion web application involves enabling both user authentication and authorization. Authentication refers to enabling users to access your application using a credentials validation login facility. On the other hand, authorization refers to controlling access to the application resources by defining and configuring security policies on ADF application resources, such as task flows, page definitions, and business components (entity objects and their attributes). ADF security is enabled for the Fusion web application through the use of the Configure ADF Security wizard available under the Application | Secure menu option. Moreover, JDeveloper provides additional declarative support through the jazn-data.xml security configuration overview editor, and through declarative security support at the business components level using the entity object overview editor (General and Attributes tabs).

In this recipe, we will go over the process of enabling...