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Security and management improvements in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 Beta

Security and management improvements in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 Beta

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By James Falkner

The Beta release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 is now available. This release has been made in preparation for the general availability (GA) release later in 2021, and contains a number of new features and enhancements. This article offers a summary of the most important improvements and illustrates an easy way to get started with JBoss EAP.

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Elytron: A New Security Framework in WildFly/JBoss EAP

Elytron: A New Security Framework in WildFly/JBoss EAP

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By Siddhartha De

Elytron is a new security framework that ships with WildFly version 10 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.1. This project is a complete replacement of PicketBox and JAAS. Elytron is a single security framework that will be usable for securing management access to the server and for securing applications deployed in WildFly. You can still use the legacy security framework, which is PicketBox, but it is a deprecated module; hence, there is no guarantee that PicketBox will be included in future releases of WildFly. In this article, we will explore the components of Elytron and how to configure them in Wildfly.

The Elytron project covers the following: 

  • SSL/TLS
  • Secure credential storage
  • Authentication
  • Authorization

In this article, we are going to explore using SSL/TLS in WildFly with Elytron.

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