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In the previous chapter we discussed how we should protect the environment from malicious applications, which a user may deploy into our server. We discussed the security of GlassFish installation at the operating system level by using GlassFish exclusive user, filesystem, and network interfaces. In this chapter we will discuss GlassFish security from another perspective— the administration and applications security.
Overviewing of GlassFish administration
Learning GlassFish administration security
Protecting passwords used in GlassFish
Securing different network listeners
Using Virtual Server for isolating applications
Using cross context SSO available in GlassFish