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This post is a detailed description on how to use the database login module in JBoss with a J2EE Application. Scenario There is a EJB and we want to restrict the access to this ejb's method to an authenticated user having a particular role. The EJB is accessed from a standalone Java Client using Remote Lookup. Implementation The EJB is HelloSSB and the roles allowed are admin and user. First step is to write the EJB The source code is given below. This is a stateless session bean. package com.prem.ejb; import javax.annotation.PreDestroy; import javax.annotation.Resource; import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed; import javax.ejb.SessionContext; import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext; import org.jboss.annotation.security.SecurityDomain; @Stateless @SecurityDomain ("helloworld") public class HelloSSB implements HellioIntf{ @PersistenceContext(unitName = "EntApp") EntityManager em; @Reso...

Introduction Using J2EE Container security is the first step towards designing a secure and portable J2EE application . The integration of Container security with an application is easy but requires some amount of knowledge and research. The main reason for this is various J2EE application server providers gives us only a limited amount of login modules by default. For example an Active Directory authentication is a standard requirement but not all J2EE Server vendors provide this.But many major vendors provide this login module . The bottomline is we may be required to write our own login modules for many standard services. Writing our own login module is not difficult .Writing a custom login module will not be covered in this post.This post is about integrating a DB login module to an application deployed in JBoss Server. In this post i am only giving the steps without eloborating on each of the steps. 5 Steps Identify the EJB that you want to secure. Add the annotation @Securitydoma...