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Summary: Security Annotation Framework 0.9 released!

The Security Annotation Framework (SAF) version 0.9 has been released. The SAF is a framework for instance-level access control and field-level encryption. Access-control decisions at class-instance-level and crypto operations at field-level are enforced using Java 5 annotations. The SAF defines service provider interfaces (SPI) to be implemented by authorization providers and crypto providers. Authorization providers decide for individual class-instances (e.g. domain object instances of an enterprise application) if access shall be granted or not. Similarly, encryption providers are repsonsible for encrypting and decrypting field values of objects.... read more

The Security Annotation Framework (SAF) version 0.8.2 has been released. The SAF is an instance-level access control framework driven by Java 5 annotations. It complements Java EE security concepts by introducing declarative permission checks on the level of domain object instances. The SAF provides a custom configuration schema for easy integration into Spring 2.5 (or higher) applications.

Changes in the 0.8.2 release include... read more

The Security Annotation Framework (SAF) version 0.8.1 has been released. The SAF is an instance-level access control framework driven by Java 5 annotations. It complements Java EE security concepts by introducing declarative permission checks on the level of domain object instances. The SAF provides a custom configuration schema for easy integration into Spring 2.x applications.

Changes in the 0.8.1 release include... read more

This is the first open source release of the Security Annotation Framework (SAF). The SAF is an instance-level access control framework driven by Java 5 annotations. It can be easily integrated into Spring applications and is primarily used to control access to domain object instances. SAF security annotations define locations in the source code where the SAF shall perform permission checks at runtime. ... read more