Any best practice to apply role based access control?

Hi,
I am starting to apply the access permissions for new users as being set by admin. I am choosing Role Based Access Control for this task.
Can you please share the best practices or any built-in feature in JSF to achieve my goal?
Regards,
Faysi

Hi,
The macro pattern is my work. I've received a lot of help from forums as this one and from the Java developers community in general and I am very happy to help others and share my work.
Regarding the architect responsibility of defining the pages according to the roles that have access to them : there is the enterprise.software infrastructure.facade
java package.
Here I implemented the Facade GoF software design pattern in the GroupsAndRolesAccessFacade java class. Thus, this is the only class the developer uses in order to define groups and roles of users and to define their access as per page.
This is according to Java EE 6 tutorial, section VII Security, page 471.
A group, role or user is created with an Identity Management application or by a custom application.
Pages of the application and their sections are defined or modified together with the group, role or user who has access to them.
For this u can use the createActiveGroup and createActiveRole methods of the GroupsAndRolesAccessFacade class.
I've been in situations where end users very strict about the functionality of the application.
If you try to abstract web development, u can think of writing to database, reading from database and modifying the database as actions.
Each of these actions should have suggester, approver and implementor.
Thus u can't call the createActiveGroup method for example, without calling first the requestActiveGroupCreationHelper and then the approveOrDeclineActiveGroupCreationHelper method.
After the pages a group has access to have been defined with the createActiveGroup method, a developer can find out the pages and their sections a group has access to by calling the getMinimumInformationAboutGroup method.
Further more, if the application is very strict, that is if every action which envolves writing to the database must be recorded, this concept of suggester, approver and implementor is available throught the recordActiveGroupAction method.
For example, there is a web shop, its managers can change the prices of the products, but the boss will want to know who had the dared to lower prices.
This action of lowering prices, is an action of modifying the information in the database and u can save in the database who suggested it, who approved it and who implemented it.
Now that I write about the functionality of the macro pattern, I realise that some methods should have more proper names and I haven't had time to write documentation in the API, but this will be a complete when I add the web pages for the architect to use for defining access control and for the end users to view who and what is doing with their application.

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Permissions based on GUI components is a simple & neat idea. But is it rugged? Really secure? It might fall short of Grady Booch's idea of Responsibilities of objects. Also that your Roles and Access components are coupled well with Views!!!!!!!
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If the answer to the above is YES(yes I want to persist changes), how about doing a write operation(update role/access) of the XML file and continue your operation? After all, you can get the request to a web or session bean and keep going.
If the answer to the above is NO(no, i don't want to persist), you can still get the change role request to a web or session bean and keep going.
Either way, there is going to be an intense scrutiny of the operator before giving her permissions!!!
One hurdle could be that how to get all neighbouring servers know about the changes in roles and access??? An MBean or App Server API could help you in this.
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Can anybody suggest a detailed example or tutorials of how to implement a role based access control for my ADF UIX application.
The application users can be dymanically added to specific roles (admin, Secretary, Guest). Based on the roles, they should be allowed to access only certain links or ADF entity/view operations. Can this be implemented in a centralized way.
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Brenden,
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/jguard/ --> an open source JAAS based security framework that stores the user, roles and permissions in database tables similar to your approach
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/collateral/papers/10g/adfstrutsj2eesec.pdf --> a whitepaper I've written about J2EE security for Web applications written with Struts and JavaServer pages. You may not be able to use all of it, but its a good source of information.
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Applications Releases 11i and 12
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/applications.html
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Note: 753979.1 - E-Business Suite Diagnostics RBAC Basics
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=753979.1
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