Everything about Java Authentication and Authorization Service

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Java Authentication and Authorization ServiceA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Invitation to Computer ScienceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: Pluggable Authentication ModuleA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: Credential ManagementA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

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📚 Books worth reading

• Invitation to Computer ScienceG. Michael Schneider, Judith L. Gersting · 1995
• Foundations and Practice of SecurityJoaquin Garcia-Alfaro · 2012
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• RESTful Java with JAXRS 20Bill Burke · 2013
• Web ServicesAnura Guruge · 2004
• 📕Java Authentication And Authorization Service · 2010
• AWS development essentialsPrabhakaran Kuppusamy · 2014
• Spring MVC cookbookAlex Bretet · 2016

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🔗 Related topics

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• Credential Management Credential Management, also referred to as a Credential Management System (CMS), is an established form of software that is used for issuing and managing…
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• Web API security Web API security entails authenticating programs or users who are invoking a web API. Along with the ease of API integrations come the difficulties of…
• Spring Security Spring Security is a Java/Java EE framework that provides authentication, authorization and other security features for enterprise applications. The project…
• Digest access authentication Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's…
• Basic access authentication In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password…
• Single sign-on Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems…