Jakarta Authentication Project Website

Jakarta Authentication defines a general low-level SPI for authentication mechanisms, which are controllers that interact with a caller and a container's environment to obtain the caller's credentials, validate these, and pass an authenticated identity (such as name and groups) to the container.

• Jakarta Authentication 1.1

  First release for Jakarta EE 8

• Jakarta Authentication 2.0

  Release for Jakarta EE 9

• Jakarta Authentication 3.0

  Release for Jakarta EE 10

• Jakarta Authentication 3.1 (under development)

  Release for Jakarta EE 11