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[EJB3] About security and the Deployer role

 
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From what I have understood, the Deployer assigns principals to roles defined in both DeclareRoles and RolesAllowed annotations, and the security-role elements in the deployment descriptor.
I'm fine with the deployment descriptor. It's like EJB2. But how is the Deployer going to gather roles defined with annotations ? Using a magic wand ?
 
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Hi,

either tools inspect the packaged EJB or the EJB application/component will have to discuss these roles in documentation--in the enterprise, documentation is a good thing anyway.

By the way, this problem is not completely new: for example, how would a deployer know about roles that are only referenced in calls to EJBContext.isCallerInRole(String), even in a EJB 2.x application?

I think some (lightweight) documentation is the way to go...

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Oliver
 
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how would a deployer know about roles that are only referenced in calls to EJBContext.isCallerInRole(String), even in a EJB 2.x application?


I thought that the Bean Developer was responsible for setting pseudo-roles in the deployment descriptor. But I thought it was not particularly needed in 3.0. Well, as you said, documentation will be needed, or a tool scanning the classes. Thank you.
 
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Of course, you were right. DeclareRoles is the annotation that corresponds to EJBContext.isCallerInRole().

A container could certainly scan an EJB's class file for these annotations much like it would scan a deployment constructor.
 
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