Jakarta Authorization defines a low-level SPI for authorization modules, which are repositories of permissions facilitating subject based security by determining whether a given subject has a given permission, and algorithms to transform security constraints for specific containers (such as Jakarta Servlet or Jakarta Enterprise Beans) into these permissions.
The primary goal of this release is to make Jakarta Authorization more suitable for cloud deployments, by adding an option to add policy providers programmatically for a single application. This mirrors the API available for Jakarta Authentication.
More specifically:
The JDK version required will be aligned with Jakarta EE 10.
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-06-09 with the following results.
| Representative | Representative for: | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Kazumura | Fujitsu | +1 |
| Dan Bandera, Kevin Sutter | IBM | +1 |
| Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov | Oracle | +1 |
| Andrew Pielage, Matt Gill | Payara | +1 |
| Scott Stark, Mark Little | Red Hat | +1 |
| David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro | Tomitribe | +1 |
| Ivar Grimstad | EE4J PMC | +1 |
| Marcelo Ancelmo, Martijn Verburg | Participant Members | +1 |
| Werner Keil | Committer Members | +1 |
| Dr. Jun Qian | Enterprise Members | +1 |
| Total | 10 |
The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list.