OID for Identity and Policy Stores

18-10 Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Security Guide Functional policies can be managed with Oracle Entitlements Server; for details, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Entitlements Server.

18.8.1.2 Checking Permissions with CheckPermission

In some cases, developers may need to check permissions programmatically. This check is carried out by calling the method checkPermission. For details on checking policies using checkPermision and other methods, see Section 20.3.3.1, Using the Method checkPermission.

18.8.2 Functional Security with ADF

Typically, developers implement application functional security with the declarative security model provided by ADF in Oracle JDeveloper; this model greatly simplifies security integration by hiding and separating most security details from the application-specific logic. In ADF, a functional security policy assigns permissions to secured artifacts, such as ADF task flows, pages, and regions; ADF facilitates this task by providing a user interface that lists the available permissions. To add a functional security grant to an applications using ADF, proceed as follows: 1. Check out jazn-data.xml, adf-config.xml, weblogic.xml, jps-config.xml, cwallet.sso, and web.xml; all these files must be writable. 2. Execute the ADF security wizard. 3. Enable anonymous access to all regions and task flows. This task creates the special role TEST-ALL with the anonymous user as a member. Permissions to all regions and task flows are then granted to the TEST-ALL role; this ensures that a non-authenticated user has access to all ADF artifacts in the application and that the application continues to work before security is defined for task flows and regions. 4. Grant permissions to privilege roles. Once the ADF security wizard has been run, the files listed in step 1 are created or updated. Then, a developer uses the authorization policy editor to grant privilege roles permission to task flows and regions. If a needed role is not available at that time, the developer must request that the product manager create the privilege role in the file jazn-data.xml. Then, the developer must be check out that file again to have the new role available. Table 18–4 Resource Catalog Entities Entity Description Comments and Examples Resource Type A type defined by a Java permission class which includes the set of actions allowed on an instance of the type. Examples: WebService, ADF TaskFlow, and Scheduled Jobs ESS Resource A instance of a resource type and a subset of the actions allowed by the resource type. Example: a Purchase Order TaskFlow with updating privileges. Purchase Order TaskFlow is a resource instance of the ADF TaskFlowresource type. Entitlement or permission set A set of resources and actions allowed on them.