jGuard Open source solution that provides a security framework based on java authentication and authorization security
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Open source solution that provides a security framework based on java authentication and authorization security jGuard is a library that provides EASY security (authentication and authorization) for Java web applications.jGuard is built over the stable and mature JAAS framework, which is part of the JAVA J2SE api.jGuard is very flexible and allows several different ways to configure those mechanisms for authentication and authorization, i.e., in a relational database, LDAP service and XML files.NOTE: jGuard is developed, distributed and licensed under the terms of the GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL). What's New in This Release: · upgrade to java 5 · upgrade to JCapthca 1.0-RC6 · add authenticationSchemeHandler interface and the related authentication lifecycle · fix a bug about CryptUtils : in a concurrency use case, some password check can fail. · => thanks to Lars Feistner · migrate from java.util.logging to SLF4J(logging facade) to permit for the end user to choose its logging library · add a 'propagateThrowable' option (thanks to Lars Feistner for the idea) to permit to not catch any exception for a debugging purpose · fix the setAttributes and setAttribute method in MbeanServerGuard (JMX) · => thanks to Andriy Gapon · add regexp support in JSFPermission · => thanks to Victor Bucutea · add more unit tests including JSF tests · upgrade release number to 2.0 to reflect major API changes

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