Secure4J includes plug-in policy handlers for JAAS (Java Authentication Authorization Service) and provides fine grained authorization control through ACL (Access Control Lists). Secure4J's GUI (Graphical User Interface) simplifies the management of user accounts, authentication and authorization functions.

Secure4J's support of roles and groups makes it also suitable for managing different groups or communities of users.

Key features include:

• supports token based authentication and authorization
• supports role and group contexts for authorization
• distributed architecture separates authentication, authorization and view components
• audit history for authentication and authorization events
• configurable data source for accounts, authorization and audit history
• configurable logging options via log4j logging framework
• includes support for JAAS policy manager
• includes support for access control lists
• GUI for real time monitoring of authentication events
• GUI for managing accounts and authorization rules
• includes swing and JSP support