This part contains the following chapters:

• Introduction to Oracle Platform Security Services
  Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) provides development teams a portable and integrated framework to secure Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE) applications.
• Understanding Users and Roles
  This chapter defines terms used throughout this document, and it introduces the role category and role mapping. Special roles include the authenticated and anonymous roles.
• Understanding Identities, Policies, Credentials, Keys, Certificates, and Audit
  Identities, policies, credentials, keys, and audit are fundamental to securing applications. This chapter introduces these basic concepts.
• About the Security Store
  This chapter introduces the security store types supported, the package requirements for application security, and the OPSS support for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).