JavaTM Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) 1.0_01

Installation Instructions


  1. Download JAAS 1.0_01. You can save the downloaded file anywhere on your local disk.

    Note that JAAS 1.0_01 requires that you have JavaTM 2 SDK, v 1.3 or the JavaTM 2 Runtime Environment, v 1.3 already installed.

  2. Uncompress and extract the downloaded file ('unzip jaas1_0_01.zip' on Solaris, or use the WinZip utility on Windows). This will create a directory named jaas1_0_01, with two subdirectories named doc and lib. By default, the jaas1_0_01 directory will be created in the same directory as the downloaded file.

    The doc directory contains:

    1. README
    2. Installation Directions
    3. License Information
    4. Copyright Information
    5. JAAS Sample Program (located in the 'samples' subdirectory)

    The JAAS API developer's guide contains directions for running a sample JAAS program. This download does not contain any javadocs. To obtain the javadocs, you must download them separately from, http://java.sun.com/products/jaas.

    The lib directory contains the JAAS implementation. The JAAS class implementations are bundled in the jaas.jar file.

  3. JAAS 1.0_01 is supplied as an extension to the Java 2 platform.

    The lib subdirectory extracted in the previous step contains the extension file, jaas.jar. You can either install this file in the JRE ("installed extension") or bundle it with your application ("bundled extension"): For more information on extensions, please refer to the Extensions Documentation.

  4. Sample Authentication Modules

    If you also downloaded the Sample Authentication Modules, uncompress and extract that downloaded file ('unzip jaasmod1_0.zip' on Solaris, or use the WinZip command on Windows). This will create a directory named jaasmod1_0, with two subdirectories named doc and lib. By default, the jaasmod1_0 directory will be created in the same directory as the downloaded file.

    The doc directory contains:

    1. README
    2. Installation Directions
    3. License Information
    4. Copyright Information

    Please refer to the Installation Directions contained in the download to complete the Sample Authentication Modules installation.

  5. Testing the Installation

    You can test the JAAS Class Libraries installation by attempting to run the sample program provided in the doc/samples directory of the download. Directions for running the sample program are listed in the JAAS API developer's guide. If the sample program runs without throwing any security exceptions, then it succeeded and was run properly.



Last update: 1/10/00