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Posted to fortress@directory.apache.org by Shawn McKinney <sm...@apache.org> on 2020/05/18 16:44:53 UTC

Fortress Web Improvements

Hello,

Notifying the project of some recent changes with Apache Fortress Web.

Two enhancements:

* [FC-281 Upgrade to Wicket version 8](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FC-281)

Long overdue upgrade was causing a backlog of other dependencies getting behind.  Now on version 8.x of Wicket, and latest Spring security 5.x, this app well placed for continued support in the future.

* [FC-282 Make ARBAC checks configurable](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FC-282)

Includes documenting:

Now, like in Fortress Rest, the Arbac checks are configurable, and are turned off by default.

Which is just one of 5 layers of security as described:

[Fortress Web Security Model](https://github.com/apache/directory-fortress-commander/blob/master/README-SECURITY-MODEL.md)

Making it perhaps the one of the most well secured administrative apps in a landscape full of inadequately secured administrative apps.

—
Shawn
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Re: Fortress Web Improvements

Posted by Emmanuel Lécharny <el...@gmail.com>.
Great ! Thanks Shawn !

On 18/05/2020 18:44, Shawn McKinney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Notifying the project of some recent changes with Apache Fortress Web.
>
> Two enhancements:
>
> * [FC-281 Upgrade to Wicket version 8](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FC-281)
>
> Long overdue upgrade was causing a backlog of other dependencies getting behind.  Now on version 8.x of Wicket, and latest Spring security 5.x, this app well placed for continued support in the future.
>
> * [FC-282 Make ARBAC checks configurable](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FC-282)
>
> Includes documenting:
>
> Now, like in Fortress Rest, the Arbac checks are configurable, and are turned off by default.
>
> Which is just one of 5 layers of security as described:
>
> [Fortress Web Security Model](https://github.com/apache/directory-fortress-commander/blob/master/README-SECURITY-MODEL.md)
>
> Making it perhaps the one of the most well secured administrative apps in a landscape full of inadequately secured administrative apps.
>
> —
> Shawn
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