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Oracle® Application Server Security Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)
B13999-03
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Preface

This document presents basic Web security concepts and describes the Oracle Application Server security framework and how to use it. First, it provides a survey of security issues and requirements that arise when operating private business systems in the public Internet environment. Then it introduces the security features of Oracle Application Server and provides configuration information for setting up a secure middle tier.

Audience

The Oracle Application Server Security Guide is intended for security administrators, application developers, database administrators, system operators, and other Oracle users who perform the following tasks:

To use this document, you need to have general knowledge of Web server administration, Internet concepts, and networking concepts.

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Related Documentation

For Oracle Application Server Application Administrators

This section lists common administration tasks and the manuals that describe them.

For Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure Administrators

For all tasks pertaining to administering and deploying Oracle Identity Management, see the Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide.

For Oracle Application Server Application Developers

This section lists common development tasks and the manuals that describe them.

For Oracle Application Server Application Deployers

This section lists common deployment tasks and the manuals that describe them.

For further information on security issues that are not addressed here, see the Oracle Application Server Release Notes in the Oracle Application Server Platform-specific documentation.

For Oracle Application Server Application Users

This section lists common development tasks and the manuals that describe them.

Guide to Oracle Documentation

For more information, see these Oracle resources. Descriptions of documents have been added to some listings to guide you to where specific security information can be found. Where document titles are self-explanatory, no description is provided.

The Oracle Application Server Documentation Library contains the following documents:

Oracle Application Server Platform-Specific Documentation contains the following documents:

Oracle Database Documentation Library contains the following documents:

Conventions

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