Have you ever needed to create a login authentication mechanism for an application? Odds are, you have, and probably more than once, with each new implementation being close, but not identical, to the ...

"One in three firms suffer hacking attempts," reported vnunet.com on March 23, 2004, based on a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unfortunately, this story is not unique and not really news.

A key aspect of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) component models is a simple declarative security model. The Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) 2.0 and Servlet 2.2 specifications support a ...