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Sometimes it’s crucial to protect an application or data against unauthorized access. Although Alumni offers some public pages, most are restricted to members. The system will grant access to certain features for well-known users only. Luckily, the application server provides some security features, like authentication and authorization, and controls access to parts of the program with the concept of user roles.
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Müller, M. (2018). Authentication and Authorization. In: Practical JSF in Java EE 8 . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3030-5_32
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