This feature is superseded by appSecurity-2.0. Support for securing the server runtime environment and applications. This feature enables servlet-3.0 and web application security, support for LDAP and basic user registries, and SSL. To support secure EJB applications, you must add the ejbLite-3.1 feature. When you add this feature to your server, you need to configure a user registry, such as the basic user registry or the LDAP user registry.

Enabling this feature

To enable the Application Security 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>appSecurity-1.0</feature>

Features that this feature is superseded by

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-20.0

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.appSecurity-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"