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serializers and deserializers, if supported, are treated in the same way as message hand-
lers.
The Java EE 6 platform requires JAX-WS 2.2.
Java Authentication and Authorization Service
The Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) provides a way for a Java EE
application to authenticate and authorize a specific user or group of users to run it.
JAAS is a Java programming language version of the standard Pluggable Authentication
Module (PAM) framework, which extends the Java Platform security architecture to sup-
port user-based authorization.
GlassFish Server Tools
The GlassFish Server is a compliant implementation of the Java EE 6 platform. In addition
to supporting all the APIs described in the previous sections, the GlassFish Server in-
cludes a number of Java EE tools that are not part of the Java EE 6 platform but are
provided as a convenience to the developer.
This section briefly summarizes the tools that make up the GlassFish Server. Instructions
for starting and stopping the GlassFish Server, starting the Administration Console, and
starting and stopping the Java DB server are in
Chapter 2
,
“
Using the Tutorial Examples
.”
The GlassFish Server contains the tools listed in
Table 1-1
. Basic usage information for
many of the tools appears throughout the tutorial. For detailed information, see the online
help in the GUI tools.
