For an enterprise application,
you can roll up all the security roles that are defined in the application's
modules. You can then combine and remove redundant or unnecessary
security roles. You can use the deployment descriptor to gather security
roles.
About this task
A security role is a logical
grouping of principals. Access to operations (such as EJB methods)
is controlled by granting access to a role. The Gather option
combines all security roles defined in modules that are included in
the application.
Procedure
- In the Enterprise Explorer view of the Java™ EE perspective, right-click the deployment
descriptor for your enterprise application project and select to open the application deployment descriptor editor.
- On the Security page of the editor, click Gather.
Any security roles that are defined in the enterprise application's
modules are added to the enterprise application. The security roles
are not removed from the modules.