EE Security API

The reference implementation for the Java EE security API will be integrated into WildFly. This will be done by creating a new subsystem (ee-security) that will perform any integration work required.

As the RI depends on CDI and JASPIC API’s only at present no configuration or Elytron specific integration is planned. Users of this API will simply inherit whatever JASPIC config WildFly is configured to use, either Elytron or the legacy security subsystem.

At some point we may wish to provide additional authentication mechanisms or identity stores, however that is outside the scope of this feature and not something that we should be holding up Java EE8 over.

This work does not depend on Elytron support for JASPIC. As the RI uses standard JASPIC APIs it can be implemented regardless of the underlying JASPIC implementation.