The jax-rs-pac4j project is an easy and powerful security library for JAX-RS web applications and web services which supports authentication and authorization, but also logout and advanced features like session fixation and CSRF protection.
It's based on Java 11, servlet 4 (when present), JAX-RS 2 and on the pac4j security engine v5. It's available under the Apache 2 license.
- A client represents an authentication mechanism. It performs the login process and returns a user profile. An indirect client is for UI authentication while a direct client is for web services authentication:
▸ OAuth - SAML - CAS - OpenID Connect - HTTP - OpenID - Google App Engine - LDAP - SQL - JWT - MongoDB - Stormpath - IP address
- An authorizer is meant to check authorizations on the authenticated user profile(s) or on the current web context:
▸ Roles / permissions - Anonymous / remember-me / (fully) authenticated - Profile type, attribute - CORS - CSRF - Security headers - IP address, HTTP method
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A matcher defines whether the
SecurityFiltermust be applied and can be used for additional web processing -
Filters protect resources and map some of them to login processes.
- The
SecurityFilterprotects a resource by checking that the user is authenticated and that the authorizations are valid, according to the clients and authorizers configuration. If the user is not authenticated, it performs authentication for direct clients or starts the login process for indirect clients - The
CallbackFilterfinishes the login process for an indirect client - The
LogoutFilterlogs out the user from the application.
These filters can be directly registered by hand, or instead, the following features can be used.
- Generic JAX-RS Providers and Features activate the use of some of the filters on the JAX-RS implementation based on various conditions
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The
Pac4JFeatureenables generic JAX-RS based pac4j functionality. The default configuration does not provide session handling (i.e., it will only work with direct clients). The feature registers the following default providers:JaxRsContextFactoryProviderto create the generic pac4j context for JAX-RSJaxRsConfigProviderto provide the pac4j configurationJaxRsSessionStoreProviderto provide the configured pac4jSessionStore
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The
Pac4JSecurityFeatureenables annotation-based activation of the filters at the resource method level -
The
Pac4JSecurityFilterFeatureactivates a global filter that will be applied to every resources.
- Container/Implementation-specific Providers and Features extend the basic functionality provided by the generic ones
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The
Pac4JValueFactoryProviderenables injection of the security profile in resource method -
The
Pac4JServletFeatureprovides session handling (and thus indirect clients support) by replacing the genericJaxRsContextFactoryProviderwithServletJaxRsContextFactoryProvider(for Servlet-based JAX-RS implementations, e.g., Jersey on Netty or Grizzly Servlet, Resteasy on Undertow) andJaxRsSessionStoreProviderwithServletSessionStoreProvider. -
The
Pac4JGrizzlyFeatureprovides session handling (and thus indirect clients support) by replacing the genericJaxRsContextFactoryProviderwithGrizzlyJaxRsContextFactoryProvider(for Grizzly2 without Servlet support) andJaxRsSessionStoreProviderwithGrizzlySessionStoreProvider.
Usage
1) Add the required dependencies
2) Define:
- the security configuration
- the callback configuration, only for web applications
- the logout configuration
3) Apply security
4) Get the authenticated user profiles
Versions
The latest released version is the 
See the release notes. Learn more by browsing the pac4j documentation and the jax-rs-pac4j Javadoc.
See the migration guide as well.
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