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Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

You're reading from   Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 Core details of the Enteprise server supported by clear directions and advanced tips.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463630
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luigi Fugaro Luigi Fugaro
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Preface 1. Installation and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. The CLI Management Tool 3. Managing EAP in Domain Mode 4. Deploying Applications 5. Load Balancing 6. Clustering EAP 7 7. Logging 8. Configuring Database Connectivity 9. Configuring EAP 7 for Java EE Applications 10. Messaging Administration 11. Securing the Application Server 12. New Security Features of EAP 7 13. Using EAP 7 with Docker 14. Running EAP 7 on the Cloud Using OpenShift

Hardening datasource configuration

As you have seen by reading this chapter, configuring a datasource, either XA or non-XA, includes providing passwords. As long as you keep the configuration to yourself, there is no issue with that. But what happens if you are working with different people, or a different team, who are not related directly to your company? Would you mind giving passwords out? I guess you would, or at least you should.

Fortunately, JBoss EAP 7 (actually, since JBoss EAP 5) provides two ways to hide your password.

One way is to encrypt your password by using hashing. The other way is to use a vault to protect one or more password in one place. We will look at both procedures in detail.

Password encryption

First of all, let's talk about hashing. Hashing is about integrity. This means that it is used to check whether a message (a text, a password, a file, and so on) that has arrived at its destination has been changed during its journey or not. A hash is not reversible. Given...

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