WebSphere® eXtreme Scale provides several
security endpoints to integrate custom mechanisms. In the local programming
model, the main security function is authorization, and has no authentication
support. You must authenticate independently from the already existing WebSphere Application Server authentication. However,
you can use the provided plug-ins to obtain and validate Subject objects.
About this task
You can enable local security with the ObjectGrid XML descriptor
file or programmatically.
Procedure
- Enable local security with the ObjectGrid
XML descriptor XML file.
The
secure-objectgrid-definition.xml file that is used in the ObjectGridSample enterprise application
sample is shown in the following example. Set the securityEnabled
attribute to
true to enable security.
<objectGrids>
<objectGrid name="secureClusterObjectGrid" securityEnabled="true"
authorizationMechanism="AUTHORIZATION_MECHANISM_JAAS">
...
</objectGrids>
- Enable local security programmatically.
To create an ObjectGrid using the
ObjectGrid.setSecurityEnabled method, call the following method on the
ObjectGrid interface:
/**
* Enable the ObjectGrid security
*/
void setSecurityEnabled();
What to do next
Start the container and catalog servers with security enabled.