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| 2012-11-23 |
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| Introduction |
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| Apache Redback started as an attempt to clean away some of the more annoying security related components of web applications |
| and centralize them into a simple to use framework. Some of the basic beliefs we started with where that authentication, |
| authorization and user management were all basically seperate concerns, sure there are points where they rub up against each other but those are |
| pretty clear points and not worth mashing up whole discrete concepts together. |
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| Redback supports a number of authentication mechanisms, and a couple of authorization schemes including an implementation of role based access control. |
| Redback has been built on top of the plexus container so it is simple to have the core security system object into your code for making authentication, |
| authorization or user management tasks through its api. |
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| Apache Redback is currently being used for providing a consistent security related user experience to Apache Continuum and Archiva. |