GNU-Security API

Overview

GNU-Paperclips Security is a Java API for implementing security in an HTTP Servlet Engine environment. It was originally built to provide a simple pluggable mechanism for adding security to services provided by web servlets. It became a more generic API for providing security when we saw how easy it was to use.

The API is built around the concept of authentication providers. These are Java Objects which provide authentication by talking to some registry. A simple Hashtable based authentication provider is already implemented, we hope providers based on LDAP and JDBC will soon follow.
 

Further Information

We hope to describe a little more about the Security API on this page soon, but for now...

The JavaDoc for the GNU-Paperclips Security API is available on line or as a download.

GNU-Paperclips Security API JavaDoc on-line
GNU-Paperclips Security JavaDoc download (.jar file)
The GNU-Paperclips list is used by the developers working on GNU-Paperclips Security API. You can register on the list by sending email to gnupaperclips@gnu.org. Make sure that the subject contains the word: subscribe
 
 

Downloading the API

You can download the GNU-Paperclips Security API class files by clicking on this link.

You can download the GNU-Paperclips Security API source files by clicking on this link.

The source files are also available from anonymous CVS from here.

Created: 1 July 1999 Last Updated: Contact: webmaster Author: Nic Ferrier