15.2. Disabling Security

In some situations, you may need to disable Seam Security (during unit tests, for instance, or to use a different security approach, like native JAAS). To disable the security infrastructure, call the static method Identity.setSecurityEnabled(false). However, when you want to configure the application, a more convenient alternative is to control the following settings in components.xml:

This chapter documents the vast number of options available when establishing the user's identity (authentication) and establishing access constraints (authorization). We will begin with the foundation of the security model: authentication.