Chapter 9. Handling Security, Session Timeouts, Exceptions, and Errors
In this chapter, we will cover:
Enabling ADF security
Using a custom login page
Accessing the application's security information
Using OPSS to retrieve the authenticated user's profile from the identity store
Detecting and handling session timeouts
Using a custom error handler to customize how exceptions are reported to the ViewController
Customizing the error message details
Overriding attribute validation exceptions
Introduction
The ADF security framework provides authentication and authorization services for the ADF Fusion web application. To a certain degree, this security framework is supported in JDeveloper through a number of wizards and overview editors (available via the Application | Secure menu options) that allow interactive declarative configuration of certain parts of the application's security configuration. The security overview editors simplify the work needed to secure the application by authorizing ADF resources...