IBM WebSphere V5.0 Security - CGISecurity

Figure 4-10 Defining Security role references in Application Assembly Tool
Security Role References with WebSphere Studio
The following steps will show how to define Security Role references for the Web
module in WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
1. Open the Web perspective in Studio, select the J2EE Navigator.
2. Expand the itsobankWeb tree and double-click Web deployment
descriptor. This will open the editor with the web.xml file.
3. Switch to the Servlets tab.
4. Select TransferServlet in the Servlets and JSP section.
5. In the Authorized Roles section, click Edit. This will open the Select
Authorized Roles dialog box.
6. Select the roles that you want to add, for example: manager and clerk.
This performs the reference a bit differently than the Application Assembly
Tool; in this case, the name in the source code and the link to the application
roles will automatically have the same reference name; in our example, the
reference to manager is manager, the reference to clerk is clerk. You can
check the entry in the web.xml source by searching for the following tag:
. This is not the case in Application Assembly tool, where
the actual reference name and link name can be different.
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