SoftwareEngineering

A Realm is a component that can access application-specific security data such as users, roles, and permissions. The Realm translates this application-specific data into a format that Shiro understands so Shiro can in turn provide a single easy-to-understand Subject programming API no matter how many data sources exist or how application-specific your data might be.

A Realm is essentially a security-specific DAO

Apache Shiro Web Features

Hash Features

Deault interface implementations - Shiro provides default Hash (aka Message Digests in the JDK) implementations out-of-the-box, such as MD5, SHA1, SHA-256

Built-in Hex and Base64 conversion - Shiro Hash instances can automatically provide Hex and Base-64 encoding of hashed data via their toHex() and toBase64() methods

Using Apache Shiro Security to allow login via Facebook – part 1

GraniteDS comes with a powerful MXML/ActionScript3 compiler you may deploy in your servlet container. This servlet will compile your MXML code on the fly each time you have modified it and return a SWF

download the graniteds-webcompiler-***.zip bundle on SourceForge.

JEE6 / CDI Services

Configuration for EJB 3 In order to initialize GDS/Tide for EJB 3 and Hibernate, you must add granite.jar and granite-hibernate.jar to your WEB-INF/lib

GDS/Tide project represents the Data Services part of GDS

comparable to LiveCycle Data Services, which is neither open source nor free, as it provides similar features such as client container of managed entities, data paging, and integration with server components, but it is based on completely different principles:

strongly typed Hibernate/JPA detached objects