What Acegi Means to the Enterprise

Enterprise application developers take note...The Acegi Security System provides security services for the Spring Framework. What this means is that the Java/J2EE development framework (a.k.a Spring) is making definite inroads towards a quality explicit security layer. As anyone who has used Spring for enterprise development knows, this is pretty big news.

Application security is a big deal, but an even bigger deal in tightly managed enterprise environments. Application owners often want integrated fine grain security models that ensure proper user access rights, clean role separation and transport layer security. Developers are often forced to roll their own or to depend on generic Java security frameworks that had to be manually integrated into Spring. Acegi fills that need with a predefined set of Spring security offerings [Single sign-on capability, password encoding, Access Control Lists].

Right now Acegi is at 1.0.0 release candidate 2 with that version providing significant improvements over release candidate 1.
Spring has achieved significant mindshare among the Java/J2EE enterprise developer community with its ease of use and ability to boost developer productivity. Acegi will only boost Spring's standing with that crowd.

With the continued growth and maturation of the extended Spring project ecosystem (including projects like Acegi), Spring is beginning to offer even more value to the prospect of J2EE programming with Enterprise Java Beans. Visit the home page for Spring here and for Acegi here.